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What does phyllotaxis mean?

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Noun
  1. (botany) The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement.
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The change of opposite to alternate phyllotaxis and repeated rejuvenations in hemp by means of changed photoperiodicity.
Such arrangements, called phyllotaxis, have been studied by scientists for decades.
Spiral phyllotaxis patterns have only parastichies, whereas whorled patterns have both orthostichies and parastichies.
The angle of divergence may alter either abruptly or gradually, and the phyllotaxis thus becomes very complicated.
Such are the majority of the scales of the cone and represent more or less indefinite conditions of phyllotaxis.
The Fibonacci numbers are also exemplified by the botanical phenomenon known as phyllotaxis.

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