romanesco buds have a shape that is mathematically called 'fractal'. A research team at the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has published a paper that elucidates the mechanism of ...

Scientists take a crack at recreating the hypnotic fractal spirals of the Romanesco cauliflower. Credit...Evan Sung for The New York Times Supported by By Sabrina Imbler Monks once hoped to turn lead ...

Mathematicians, physicists, and statisticians research plant development focusing on the meristem's gene control. Cauliflowers exhibit a unique 'memory' in their floral patterns due to genetic ...

Monks once hoped to turn lead into gold through alchemy. But consider the cauliflower instead. It takes just two genes to transform the ordinary stems, stalks and flowers of the weedy, tasteless ...

It has long been observed that many plants produce leaves, shoots, or flowers in spiral patterns. Cauliflower provides a unique example of this phenomenon, because those spirals repeat at several ...

Through the process of domestication, humans have selected plants best suited to their needs, for example, those with larger fruits or seeds that remain attached to the spike. It was known that these ...

The Romanesco cauliflower, one of the strangest looking vegetables because of its fractal florets, owes its unique shape to the fact that it forms from failed flowers. Like regular cauliflowers, ...