Fractals in Plants 1

Author: Katherina von Bulow

I went outside fractal-hunting today. I was looking at plants, and here are a few of my findings:                                                         
A camelia flower, its petals going round and round.
 
Each branch of this shrub comes from another (thicker) branch and so on until the trunk. Below ground, its root system is like a branch system that we could draw as a fractal.
 
A red cedar branch. It’s Y’s all the way down!