Plant Spirals: Beauty You Can Count On

     

 

Shown at the Church Exhibition Gallery
Lyman Plant House Winter 2002-03

Botanical Garden of Smith College

 

 

 

 

 

Now a virtual exhibit on this site

 

 

Visit the French-English version of the exhibit at the Geneva Conservatory and Botanical Gardens opening in Spring 2008!

Italian version shown from October 27 - November 8, 2005 under "I numeri delle piante" for the Festival della Scienza, at the botanical garden of Genoa, Italy.

 

 

Phyllotaxis site
at Smith College

An exhibit on the biology and mathematics of the spiral patterns ubiquitous in plants.
Produced by members of the botanical garden and of the mathematics department at Smith College.