Searsia lucida leaflet notching and other shapes

Searsia lucida leaflet tips vary much. Elaborate notching makes way for broader and narrower, round-tipped versions and irregularly shaped ones in picture, some of which had suffered early growth mishaps. There is a dramatically wavy leaf margin present in picture, clearly discomfited by an unusual life event in its past.

Still, most blades are here deep green and rich in chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the pigment in the chloroplasts of plants that absorbs the wavelengths of light required to convert water and carbon dioxide into a chemical energy form during photosynthesis, possible in sunlight. Chloroplasts are organelles that conduct the photosynthesis. An organelle is any of a number of organized or specialized structures functioning within a living cell.

In picture, the lateral veins ascend nearly straight to the leaf margins from the main vein, the midrib (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Pooley, 1993; iNaturalist).