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Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even our bodies? Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even our bodies? Is ...

He taught us to recognize the diamond pattern on hickory bark and reminded us to check whether branches were opposite or ...

What must you see to ID a tree? And what must you see during the winter, when a thick cover of snow sits atop leaf beds. That is what Bill Michaelek, manager and naturalist at Beaver Meadow Audubon ...

Summary Plants exhibit dependences between shoot growth and branching that generate highly structured patterns. The characterization of the patterning mechanism is still an open issue because of the ...