PALISADE, Colo. (KKCO) - If you live in Palisade and you want your leaves cleaned up, today is your lucky day. Palisade’s annual leaf clean-up will start on Monday and run until the first week ...

The upper part of the leaf is where the light falls, and it contains a type of cell called a palisade cell. This is adapted to absorb a lot of light. It has lots of chloroplasts and is shaped like ...

Palisade cells are at the top of the leaves to maximise photosynthesis. This is one of the adaptations of leaves so that they maximise the amount of light they absorb for photosynthesis.