Leaf Riddles: 30 Fall Riddles About Leaves with Answers

In spring I’m a tiny bud, in summer I’m green and give shade, and in fall I let go and twirl down to the ground. What am I?

I have a long handle and a row of thin teeth, but I never eat a thing. I pull the leaves on your lawn into a big pile. What am I?

I’m the thick, woody middle of a tree. Every branch and every leaf grows up above me. What am I?

I’m a small nut wearing a little cap. I fall from an oak tree, and squirrels bury me for the winter. What am I?

You can’t see me, but I shake the branches and send leaves skittering across the yard. What am I?

I’m a season with two names. One of my names tells you exactly what the leaves do. What am I?

I’m a hungry crawler who munches on leaves all day. Later, I wrap myself up tight and come out with wings. What am I?

I’m a leaf that people eat, crunchy and green, and I’m the base of most salads. What am I?

On a hot summer day, the sun can’t reach you when you sit under a tree full of leaves. What do the leaves give you?

What did the tree say when fall came and the leaves started dropping?

I’m the green stuff inside every leaf. I catch sunlight so the plant can make its own food. What am I?

Leaves do me every sunny day: they take in sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, make sugar, and give off oxygen. What am I called?

I’m a leaf’s network of thin lines. I carry water into the leaf and food out of it, a bit like the blood vessels in your arm. What am I?

Oak and maple trees drop all their leaves every fall. What’s the science word for trees like that?

My leaves are thin, sharp needles, and I keep them all winter long while other trees go bare. What’s the name for trees like me?

A red maple leaf with 11 points sits in the middle of my flag. Which country am I?

I have many leaves, but I’m not a tree. I have a spine, but I have no bones. What am I?

I’m a furry Australian animal who sleeps up to 20 hours a day and eats almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves. What am I?

Hikers have a rhyme to warn about me: “Leaves of three, let it be!” Touch me and you’ll get an itchy rash. What am I?

Pile fallen leaves in a corner of the garden, add time, worms and a little water, and they turn into me: dark, crumbly stuff that feeds next year’s plants. What am I?

Squirrels build a big round nest out of leaves and twigs high up in a tree. What is that nest called?

We’re tiny holes, mostly on the underside of a leaf. We open and close to let carbon dioxide in and let oxygen and water vapor out. What are we called?

I’m the little stalk that joins a leaf to its twig. Botanists call me by a name that starts with P. What am I?

My fan-shaped leaves turn butter-yellow in fall and often drop almost all at once. My family of trees is so old that dinosaurs walked past my ancestors. What tree am I?

What is the main signal that tells a tree it’s time to stop making green chlorophyll in the fall: the first frost, shorter days, or the first snow?

We march in long lines carrying pieces of leaf bigger than our bodies, but we don’t eat the leaves. We use them to grow an underground garden of fungus, and we eat that instead. What are we?

My leaves have a hinge and tiny trigger hairs. When an insect brushes those hairs twice, my leaf snaps shut on it. What plant am I?

I live in the desert, and my leaves are so thin and sharp that you’d never call them leaves. They help me lose less water and keep hungry animals away. What am I?

In late summer, before a leaf falls, I’m already waiting on the twig, wrapped up tight, ready to open into a brand-new leaf next spring. What am I?

A tree has 5 branches. Each branch has 4 twigs, and each twig has 10 leaves. A windy night blows away half of the leaves. How many leaves are still on the tree?