Leonardo Fibonacci: A Natural Growth of Mathematics

The marvels of nature. It's mathematically delicious! Personally, I bow my head to the (mathematically minded) power/powers that generating these miracles!
The way in which shoots are arranged on plant stems also seems to be in accordance with the Fibonacci series. Compared with the one beneath it, each shoot is offset so that it does not shade its neighbor. The angle between one shoot and the next, expressed as a fraction of the circumference of the stem, is generally found to be given by two numbers from the Fibonacci series: ½ for grasses and for elm and linden trees; 1/3 for sedges, beech, and hazel; 2/5 for oak and fruit trees; 3/8 for poplar and rose; 5/13 for willows, almond trees, and leeks.

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