Branching out: the team says it is the first demonstration of Voronoi diagrams in plant venation patterns. Left: a leaf of the Chinese money plant. Right: A computer model of a Voronoi diagram that ...

Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like rivers on a map. To most people, the pattern looks organic and loosely random.

Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A sailboat? A seahorse? Your great-aunt Rosemary? As humans, we're prone to seeing patterns where they don't actually exist. This behavior is so common there's ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring geometric pattern known as a Voronoi diagram, something typically associated ...

The Chinese money plant, commonly seen in homes and offices as a simple ornamental houseplant, is now drawing serious scientific attention. What looks like ordinary greenery may actually be hiding an ...