Asparagus, strawberries and sunflowers are, to my mind, three of the best reasons to live in western Massachusetts. It won’t ...

Sunflowers have two flower types: disc and ray flowers. The spiral pattern one sees in the disc flowers is an example of a Fibonacci series and a beautiful math lesson for us all. There are ...

The spirals on sunflower heads often conform to a Fibonacci number (see notes), and Turing was one of a number of scientists who tried to explain ‘Fibonacci phyllotaxis’, but he died before the work ...

The Fibonacci sequence even plays a role in the subtle spirals you can see in the seed head of a sunflower. This is because of something known as the Golden Ratio, the Golden Section or the Greek ...

A large sunflower might even have 89 spirals in one direction, and 144 in the other. Remarkably enough, all of these numbers fit the famous Fibonacci sequence — obtained by adding the two ...