Leaves are one of the four suits in

German-suited packs German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs with the suit (cards), suits of Acorns (suit), Acorns (''Eichel'' or ''Kreuz''), Leaves (s ...

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. This suit was invented in 15th century Germany and is a survivor from a large pool of experimental suit signs created to replace the Latin suits. Around 1480, French card makers adapted this sign into Spades in the

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(known as pikes in France). As its name suggests, the leaf is represented by a stylized green

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. The left half is lighter than the right half; it can sometimes be yellow.

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are visible and there is usually a petiole. There may also be smaller leaves. They are usually known in German as ''Laub'' ("foliage"), but also as ''Gras'' ("grass"), ''Blatt'' ("leaf") or ''Grün'' ("green"). Cards are referred to as in a French pack e.g. the "King of Leaves", but in German as ''"Laub-König"'' or ''"Grün-König"'' i.e. "Leaf King". It is the second-highest suit in the games of Skat,

Schafkopf Schafkopf (), also called Bavarian Schafkopf, is a popular German Trick-taking game, trick-taking card game of the Ace-Ten family for four players that evolved, towards the end of the 19th century, from German Schafkopf. It is still very popular i ...

and

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, and the second lowest in

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. The gallery below shows a suit of Leaves from a

German suited deck German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs with the suits of Acorns (''Eichel'' or ''Kreuz''), Leaves (''Grün'', ''Blatt'', ''Laub ...

of 32 cards. The pack is of the Saxonian pattern: File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - 07.jpg , 7 File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - 08.jpg , 8 File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - 09.jpg , 9 File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - 10.jpg, 10 File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - Unter.jpg , Unter File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - Ober.jpg , Ober File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - King.jpg ,

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File:Saxonian Deck - Leaves - Deuce.jpg,

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