Perfectionist Garden of Paradise: Plant Geometry

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

For the first time, the Fibonacci numbers were 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 simple to the impossibility: each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two, that is, the sequence looks like 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 … and so on to infinity. By the way, the number of Fibonacci can be found in nature almost anywhere. For example, the location of the leaves along the stem falls under the sequence of Fibonacci, so that each sheet has maximum access to sunlight and moisture. According to the same principle, the structure of pine cones, sunflowers, pineapples and cacti.

Perhaps you heard about such a phenomenon as the golden section – this is another form of the sequence of Fibonacci in nature. And all plants have their own geometry in one way or another. However, in some of them the geometry is more obvious and bright than others. And here are just some examples.

Romanesko

Romanesco is distinguished by a light green color and an unforgettable look, reminiscent of a fractal in its form. Compared to ordinary cauliflower, Romanesco texture as a vegetable is not so crisp, and the taste is not so characteristic, rather sophisticated and nut.

Fattlewoman “Buddhist Temple”

This is a hybrid between the fathers of the species Crassula Falcata and Crassula Pyramidalis, bred in 1959 by Miron Kimnah from the USA. But since this representative of the flora is growing very slowly, it has never been widely advertised. So even 50 years after the creation of the Buddhist Temple, it is still difficult to find. The plant reaches almost 15 cm in height and begins to open at different levels on the sides from each column. Flat thin leaves of a silver-gray or grayish-green shade go tightly and wrapped up on the edges, forming a perfectly square column.

Aloe Polyphylla

Aloe species of Polyphylla grows high on the herbaceous slopes of the dragon mountains in the Kingdom of Lesotho, not far from South Africa. Here it clings to the rocky cracks and well -dried slopes. In this area, a rather cool climate in the summer, and in winter, Aloe often covers with deep snow. Due to its symmetrical spiral shape, this plant became the object of lust of collectors, but it is difficult to cultivate, and usually it dies if you take it from the “homeland”. In South Africa, the purchase or collecting of this plant is a crime.

Dahlia

Georgina is an ordinary garden flower, but did you look at it? There are 42 types of dahlias, and their leaves can reach from 5 to 30 cm.

Sunflower

The seed hat of the sunflower follows the spiral of the farm, which is based on the sequence of Fibonacci.

Red cabbage

If you cut red cabbage horizontally in half, you will see Fibonacci spirals in the location of the leaves.

The pelecifor is wet

The wetzifor of the wet-shaped has a gray-green color and a round shape with flat nodules, which differ in scaly vertebrae and are located in the form of a spiral. It can grow up to 10 cm in height, and its flowers of bright purple color reach a width of 3 cm. This plant is relatively rare, and it can only be found in Northern Mexico.

Ludwigia Sedioides

Ludwigia Sedioides, also known as a mosaic flower, is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows only in the swamps of Brazil and Venezuela.

Lobelia Deckenii

Lobelia Deckenii is a type of giant lobel, which grows in the mountains of East Africa. Usually this plant gives numerous rosettes. Usually they are connected underground. Each rosetta has been growing for several decades, gives one large inflorescence and hundreds of thousands of seeds, and then dies.

Angelica

The flower head of the dudnik has a round shape. Each part of it is similar to a whole head in that it has a stem and its own circle of flowers. Dudnik is a genus that belongs to about 60 species of high two -year and perennial plants of the umbrella family. It grows in the temperate and subpolar regions of the Northern Hemisphere, reaching even Iceland and Lapland. It grows up to 1-3 m high, has large bicature leaves and large complex umbrellas of white or greenish-white flowers.

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