phyllotaxis
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Leaf arrangement
- Repeating spiral
- History
- Plant physiology
- Mathematics
- In art and architecture
- See also
- References
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In botany, phyllotaxis () or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature.
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