Seen this holiday in German municipal flower plots. I think they're asters?
Same kind of symmetry as pineapples and pinecones.
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Seen this holiday in German municipal flower plots. I think they're asters?
Same kind of symmetry as pineapples and pinecones.
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Ah now, they are not symmetrical. As soustupido mentions, the petals are arranged in the Fibonacci sequence so that they overlap without covering each other.
They are different types of Dahlias.Many different varieties, my neighbor used to breed all sorts of them, even developed a few varieties himself.I think they're asters?
Vegetable rather than flower, but the striking, fractal appearance of the Romanesque Broccolli always makes me stop and admire, on the rare occasions when it's available at my local market:
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Vegetable rather than flower, but the striking, fractal appearance of the Romanesque Broccolli always makes me stop and admire, on the rare occasions when it's available at my local market:
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I think there are various viruses and bugs that attack maize whilst it's forming and give rise to asymetrical arrangements like that.But now thinking, why sometimes they are not symmetrical, like this corn grains that have grown asymmetrical?
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Think you may have answered your own question there.