The Perfectionist's Garden of Eden: Plant Geometry

Sometimes it seems that plants grow randomly, in a random sequence. But the truth is that the endings of each branch, leaf, stem, bud or petal are consistent with certain laws. Wherever you look, there are patterns and patterns in nature, the most constant of which is the Fibonacci sequence.

The Fibonacci numbers were first described by ancient Indian mathematicians hundreds of years before our era, although they are named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo from Pisa, better known as Fibonacci.

The Fibonacci sequence is impossibly simple: each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two, i.e. the sequence looks like 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... and so on ad infinitum. By the way, Fibonacci numbers can be found in nature almost anywhere. For example, the arrangement of leaves along the stem falls under the Fibonacci sequence, so that each leaf has maximum access to sunlight and moisture. The structure of pine cones, sunflowers, pineapples and cacti works on the same principle.

You may have heard of such a phenomenon as the golden ratio — this is another form of the Fibonacci sequence in nature. And all plants somehow have their own geometry. However, some of them have a more obvious and bright geometry than others. And here are just some examples.

Romanesco.

Tolstyanka "Buddhist Temple".

Aloe polyphylla.

Dahlia.

Sunflower.

Red cabbage.

Peleciphora is woodlouse-shaped.

Ludwigia sedioides.

Lobelia deckenii.

Angelica.