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Aloe polyphylla
Romanesco broccoli
Crassula Buddha’s Temple Plant
Amazon Lily Pad
Amazon Lily Pad
Dahlia
Flowers Like Jeweled Carpet
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
Hoya aldrichii
Fractal cabbage
Sunflower
Camelia
Spiraling succulent
Viola sacculus
preaction
It's like there's a most-efficient way of growing things that can also be described with simple mathematical formulas
MagicalAIDSFrog
Hey there Dahlia what's it like in the forest?
HailSatinDarkClothMaster
They all look hilariously poisonous.
Bailibaro11
Crazy how nature do dat
OscarTGrouch
I wanna lick that Drosophyllum Iusitanicum
WhiskeyDe
U ded
BatmanAndCradleRobin
it is easy as 1,1,2,3
beatsbychicken
i can fap to this
DrBomiJoseph
incredible geometry
LMMJ
"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."
dreikommavierzehn
Fun fact: 60 years ago, this wasn't acknowledged as being describable by Geometry.
EudemoniousEukaryote
/r/trypophobia
TemporaryUzername
not trypophobia.
Murrdogg
Explanation via Vi Hart: http://youtu.be/ahXIMUkSXX0
CakEttE
Neat! Thank you!
lookatthepicnothere
#9 looks like it should be the marshmallows in my breakfast cereal.
SKELETONMAAAN
They produce very sweet, delicious nectar. http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/72/Hoya_carnosa_inflorescence_ies.jpg
whaleywhale
I don't think you understand what symmetry is
smeeshsmoosh
Symmetry doesn't have to be bilateral.
Geo80
Actually, I don't think YOU understand what it is.
AbsolutelyBarbaric
The Drosophyllum lusitanicum is actually carnivorous. Those little red orbs on it are sticky, so it catches bugs with them, (1/2)
AbsolutelyBarbaric
tslowly coils up around it, pours digestive acids on it, then absorbs the bug juice. (2/2)
TheSanvichMann
Black and white are all i see, in my infancy
GoodbyeSoberDay
8: red and yellow then came to be, 5: reaching out to me, 3: let's me see
TheFourthWallBro
Always upvote Tool.
CelticGirl0129
Amazing pics, but most are not symmetrical.
TheSanvichMann
Spiral out. Keep going.
DoctorJungyBrongen
http://imgur.com/sKMBhJY
CanadiansWilllRule
i love nature
FoodForTheGods
you forgot one
rainforestchica
You opportunistic genius.
Thomaster
Scarlet begonias https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cg2O4SsHQw
Starlatan
StrangerWithBenefits
Crazy how nature do dat.
HeidiandFrankforlife
Reference game on pot, er, point.
BlackStealth08
Since when is Ravioli a plant.
TheBlackShakes
Crazy how nature do dat
Oteneo
Intelligent design, ra-men
ModusPonens
http://imgur.com/E6qIdQz
texasguy14000
DA FEETSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEES
TVDinner6969
Revolvioli formuoli ravioli
Vicyorus
Ravioli, ravioli, give me the formuoli
TVDinner6969
Bikini bottom we pledge our hearts to you!
fandig
crazy how god did dat. he so amazing <3 <3 <#
coralbells71
lovely
MyDogJake
Fibonacci cabbage
ThatsJustYourOpinionMan
Fibonacci sequence/Golden ratio up in this motherfucker
IDoItForTheFakeInternetPoints
Fibonacci Sequence is so cool in plants.
WhatTheDormouseSaid
Also in my pants! Kinda looks like a banana really..
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Few of the plant typically thought to use the sequence actually do. Count and see.
radioFREEmadras
Golden Ratio ftw!
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
TugMcRaw
hiperson134
Some of these are just radial symmetry...
NIC0LANGEL0
Fractals, fractals everywhere
LetMeGramSchmidtOnYourChest
But everyone's heard of Fibonacci! I bet not everyone knows how to calculate the nth term in the sequence off the top of their heads
Millsslslsls
x*(pi/2)?
Lionskull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ntDpBm6Ok why the fibonacci sequence is overrated.
GHDUDE17
I love numberphile
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
I'm a bit disappointed in his basic addition skills.. not sure a calculator is that much quicker!
AdmJota
Who knew that flowers would be so good at math? I've got a bowl of petunias that do my taxes for me.
bobbidiboopy
I need to start getting help with my homework from plants now
phssthpok
Oh no, not again...
superanth
Beat me to it.
Geo80
Fuckin fuckity fuck lily pads are creepy!
m0therofcharizard
That's what I was thinking
PlanSomethingFromBellsLabs
The undersides of lily pads remind me of placentas ... it grosses me out so much. Gag.
TheBlackWindHowls
You might have trypophobia. Don't google that. Basically, it's fear of lots of little holes in things, such as lotus pods—again, no google.
creecreehoneybee
I almost pass out instantly anytime I see little holes like that.
ShadowNFlame
Discovered my trypophobia a few yrs ago, never knew it was a thing. Agree, those lily pads were creepy. *shiver*
Geo80
I know what it is. Those kinds of images don't bother me, holes and shit. That lily pad however.... Fuck no.
octabeck
i'm with ya, dude. this whole post made me gag, but the lily pad was particularly nauseating
Harpdemon
The sunflower freaked me out
Geo80
I like all the others. Just the lily pad is sickening.
UnpairedSock
Trypophobia. DO NOT GOOGLE IT. YOU MAY THINK YOU WANT TO BUT YOU DON'T. FEAR OF TINY HOLES CLUMPED TOGETHER. DON'T GOOGLE IT. dontgoogleit.
nayrucharm
See... The while google thing wouldn't be so bad if all the pictures didn't look like mutant alien diseases... and yes I did google it.
gingerninja90
Oh you would just LOVE the common Suriname toad
ashleymars00
You're actually Satan. Evil fucking Satan. Not cool.
ScientistFromSouth
It's called Turing Patterns. It's a type of reactive diffusion where two morphogens diffuse at different rates where the first (1/2)
GrateLordCheesus
I'm guessing you're a real scientist and not an Imgur "scientist"
krauraurgg
Judging by the fact that I know what he's talking about but can't understand his explanation of it... he might even be a professor.
ScientistFromSouth
morphogen promotes the production of the second, and the second inhibits the production of the first. This leads to regions of high (2/3)
ScientistFromSouth
morphogen 1 concentration and high morphogen 2 concentration. These regions generally take on square, round, and hexagonal patterns in (3/4)
SaluteThat
General E. Take!
parksAndRings
These are so cool, I don't know why they wait until specialized senior biology/math classes to teach the cool stuff
daneshannonsparks
I never learned this in bio or math. I learned it in art.
parksAndRings
There's some really cool equations that describe and they're surprisingly simple. You need an understanding of diff eq but they're beautiful
ScientistFromSouth
3 dimensions. Source: http://www.wired.com/2011/02/turing-patterns/ and ht">rns/">http://www.wired.com/2011/02/turing-patterns/ and http://www.jstor.org/stable/92463?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
eruval82
You're really working for that name, huh?
LordofGoats
Despite your name, I half-expected this to end with "And I'm just making stuff up, why are you still reading?" +4 to you with your sources!
theastonishingpuppy
JSTOR up in hear!
antillesw
excellent
BhataktiAtma
DamnIshouldreallybestudyingrightnow
It's nice to know we have some insight on the mechanism that make those happens. I have a professor that goes apeshit about how simmetry...
DamnIshouldreallybestudyingrightnow
Is too perfect and our incomplete science can't handle it without accounting for spirits and such and such.Will come in handy next I see him
NerdyDirtyCurvy
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21..... <3
idontneednostinkingpuffin
dat dirty nacci
vulgarjack
Where's you get my password!??!?
TestNamePleaseIgnore
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
diphiminaids
I do no understand the Fibonacci sequences relationship to the shape of these plants
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hwatL4bloopy
34, 55
MRmiceMRnotOSARCMEDBDeyesOSICMRmice
1, 2, 5! 3 sir... 3!
deftly
55, 89
Rhynocerosaurus
...144, 233, 377...
deftly
...610, 987, 1597...
ThatOneGuyYouMetThatOneTime
...2584, 4181, 6765...
MrBoomLazer
NUMBER THREE M'LORD!
FacefuckedByAGiantSpikyAlienWinwang
2584, 4181
PeanutBuddha
The Romanesco broccoli is actually cauliflower. Source: I live in Italy and eat the shit all the time.
angelmercury
At the market I goto it's called Broccoflower. But they call all the lettuce that's not Iceberg 'Fancy' Lettuce so... *Shrug*
PeanutBuddha
And yes, I know broccoli and cauliflower are in the same family, but they taste completely different
bananabelly
So? Nectarines and peaches are actually the same species, yet they look and taste very different. Science is neat!
powerpookie9000
I've never had it. Is it good? How do you cook it?
PeanutBuddha
Same as ordinary cauliflower.
powerpookie9000
Thanks! I'll have to try it.