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A plant that does math: Scientists uncover hidden Voronoi patterns inside Chinese money plant leaves
The Chinese money plant, commonly seen in homes and offices as a simple ornamental houseplant, is now drawing serious scientific attention. What looks like ordinary greenery may actually be hiding an ...
Branching out: the team says it is the first demonstration of Voronoi diagrams in plant venation patterns. Left: a leaf of the Chinese money plant. Right: A computer model of a Voronoi diagram that ...
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A hidden mathematical pattern called a Voronoi diagram just turned up inside the leaves of a common houseplant
Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like rivers on a map. To most people, the pattern looks organic and loosely random.
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