Fibonacci Spirals

• New study shows that few plants don’t follow a Fibonacci pattern.
• Researchers led by the University of Edinburgh have unearthed evidence of non-Fibonacci spirals in a fossilized plant that lived approximately 407 million years ago.

ABOUT FIBONACCI SPIRALS

• The characteristic of being arranged in spirals that adhere to a numerical sequence called the Fibonacci sequence.
• Spirals occur frequently in nature and can be seen in plant leaves, animal shells vortex of hurricane and even in the double helix of our DNA.
• In most cases, these spirals relate to the Fibonacci sequence – a set of numbers where each is the sum of the two numbers that precede it (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on).
• They are extremely widespread in plants and can even be recognised with the naked eye.