Looking around, you might imagine that branches, leaves and flowers grow at random, haphazardly.

The Fibonacci sequence is so simple its almost baffling.

The same principle is at work in the formation of pine cones, sunflowers, pineapples, and cacti.

geometry-plants

The Golden Ratio, which you might have heard before, is just another manifestation of the Fibonacci sequence.

All plants are geometrical one way or the other.

However, there are plants whose geometry is more pronounced than others.

romanesco-broccoli

Here are some famous examples.

But because it’s a very slow growing cultivar, it has never been propagated commercially in large numbers.

So even over 50 years after the creation of it, Buddha’s Temple is still hard to find.

buddahs-temple

Here it clings to rocky crevices and well-drained scree slopes.

The climate is cool in the summer and in the winter the aloes are often covered in deep snow.

In South Africa, buying or collecting the plant is a criminal offense.

aloe-polyphylla-1

Dahlia

The Dahlia is a common garden flower, but have you looked at one closely?

The plant is relatively rare and is only found in northern Mexico.

It is native to Brazil and Venezuela.

dahlia

The plant usually produce multiple rosettes, consisting of between one and eighteen rosettes, connected underground.

Angelica

View from below of Angelica flowerhead.

Sources:Divine Template Creations/Patternity.org/Bored Panda

sunflower

red-cabbage

pelecyphora-aselliformis

ludwigia-sedioides

giant-lobelia

angelica_flowerhead