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Much like us, ozone hurts them from the inside out.
When plants take up carbon dioxide through tiny little holes in their leaves called stomata, they end up taking in the air pollution around them as well. Once the ozone enters the plant, it acts as if it’s being attacked by some sort of pathogen and works to drop the impacted leaves (usually the oldest), to stop the problem from spreading.
Ozone damage on an ozone sensitive bean plant.
(Danica Lombardozzi)
If the plant’s exposed to chronically high levels of ozone then the problem will obviously be more widespread.