Breaking Leaf Annotation Guidance

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I’ve always been hesitant to use the breaking leaf buds annotation due to lack of understanding. Especially here in the south (West Central Alabama) we have a very diverse ecosystem with many plants just sprouting up year round vs where I grew up in Minnesota with many plants having obvious winter, spring, and summer stages.

I made an observation of a young Loblolly pine and was wondering if new needles would count as “breaking leaf buds”, or if it would be best to leave the annotation blank.

Here is the photo I’m referencing.

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I’d call that “breaking leaf buds.” I might call anything with leaves clearly not mature “breaking leaf buds.”

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Just a note that I adjusted word order of title to improve search for it and removed the android app tag as the topic is applicable to the whole platform.

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I would mark that as breaking leaf buds… I also mark unfurling leaves that way, even though they could be called either way.
I think the only time I was “‘corrected” was marking immature leaves as colored. The leaves were not-yet-green, as opposed to past-green.