The Leaves of the Money Plant Hide a Perfect Mathematical Pattern that Allows You to Make Better Use of Light and Space

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The Chinese plant of money seems simple. Its round leaves decorate houses and offices, but according to the authors it has never been shown a geometric organization like this in the network of veins of a plant. The work, carried out by a team with Cici Zheng and Saket Navlakha of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, shows that the main veins form an approximate version of a diagram of Voronoi around small pores that expel water. The finding does n…