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Nope. Our eyes see it as white. Or yellow. Or whatever. Human color perception is notoriously complex. It's also an evolutionary kludge of the worst sort. When color vision became useful again to our furry little ancestors, once we'd crawled out of our dark holes into daylight, we'd foolishly discarded a nearly optimal reptilian color receptor. This lost receptor was recreated in a half-ass way by splitting the remaining red-green receptor we'd kept. It was a less than optimal solution. Nervous system software patches made the shortcoming less noticeable, but my parrots still see colors a lot more clearly than I do, and they look upon our color television with contempt.
My bird's optimal color receptors:
The inglorious great ape color receptor kludge:
An "Intelligent Designer" did this??? Wait. What? Was he drunk? If I'm God's favorite, shouldn't I be able to see colors in all God' Glory like an ordinary bird?
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We don't see green stars in the sky because we see them as "white."
You heat something up, what happens? It glows red-orange-yellow-white-blue... Hey what happened to the "green hot?"
That's our white.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
And the reason plants can afford to reflect green light is that at high noon on a clear day they are exposed to far too much energy to process efficiently. Evolution has determined that the easiest, most efficient thing is to dump this extra energy.
I fear there's probably a lesson there for the solar and wind energy people... Nameplate ratings are much less valuable than they appear. If it was worth storing peak solar energy you'd expect after a few billion years of evolution the earth would be covered with black leaved plants that did so.
