Botanical Gardens, LE2
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Botanical Gardens, LE2
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 7 Jan 2013
One of the Fibonacci geometric stone-work patterns that are to be found in the grounds. The designs are based on the Fibonacci series, a set of numbers named after a 12th century Italian mathematician. Apparently many plants show Fibonacci spirals. For example, in the arrangement of leaves around a stem and of flowers in a flower head, a very efficient way of packing individual growing points (meristems) into the small area of the shoot apex. With regard to leaves, it also means that successive leaves do not hide the ones below to any great extent, thus allowing them to capture light more efficiently.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.60834
Longitude
-1.092213