I wonder what wavelength the blossoms reflect?

Some days I feel that my factual understanding of the biological world drains some of the pleasure that a more ignorant interaction with it would yield. For example, a tree in the fall, while its beauty is not lost on me, inevitably reminds me of the various chloroplast pigments (the most common one being green – i.e. reflecting a wavelength of between 520 and 540 nm) and a train of thought about what is known about light absorption for photosynthesis follows. Does this detract from the simple fact of the natural beauty of the scene? Yeah, maybe a little. But other times the magnitude of the complexity underlying the beautiful natural world we live in actually contributes to the awe I feel when beholding a particularly lovely tree. To synchronize all the various biochemical, cellular, tissue and organismal events necessary to produce a flowering cherry tree for example, is so massively complicated it is impossible to comprehend. And the circulatory system? Don’t even get me started.

The green ones reflect between 520nm and 540nm wavelengths of light