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The pumpkin flowers have 5 petals, and the female flowers have 5 stigma, but the seeds inside grow in 6 columns. Which I find puzzling. Google brings up https:
by nealabq 5y ago
The pumpkin flowers have 5 petals, and the female flowers have 5 stigma, but the seeds inside grow in 6 columns. Which I find puzzling.
Google brings up https://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/the-mystery-of-the-fibonacci-pumpkin/ https://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/the-mystery-o... which points out a 3-fold rotational symmetry in the pumpkin. And if you look, the 6 seed-columns are really 3 pairs of columns.
Five and three seem less puzzling I supposed, because Fibonacci. Still, I was expecting 5.
- gus_massa 5y agoI'm confused too, but look at this photo in the article http://randomfootage.homestead.com/pumpkinTangerine1.jpg http://randomfootage.homestead.com/pumpkinTangerine1.jpg It looks like there is an empty slot at 11-12 in the clock, and also an empty slot at 7 in the clock. Each one looks partially split in two, so I can imagine that they are the missing 2 parts of the structure of the flower.