🔬 Science May 15, 2026 · Michael Banks

Striking mathematical pattern uncovered in Chinese money plant leaves

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Striking mathematical pattern uncovered in Chinese money plant leaves
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Researchers in the US and Canda have discovered a naturally occurring “Voronoi pattern” in the Chinese money plant.
Voronoi diagrams were introduced in the 1600s by French philosopher René Descartes and are named after the Russian mathematician Georgy Voronoi, who defined and studied them in the early 1900s.
Voronoi diagrams are geometric patterns used to divide space into regions. The plane is divided up into tessellating polygons, known as cells, that each contain a “seed” point. Every locatio

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