The math tells me that all forest canopies should be Voronoi tesselations. And apparently, in some not-too-dense monoculture forests of similarly-aged trees, th

The math tells me that all forest canopies should be Voronoi tesselations. And apparently, in some not-too-dense monoculture forests of similarly-aged trees, they observably are. Where I live, in the moderately dense mixed second-growth forests of the North American northeast, I have to trust the mathematics since neither the sugar maples, elms (RIP), ash (RIP) and red oaks nor any of the abundant coniferous species that grow here demonstrate any kind of crown shyness. Maybe the aspens or birches do, I'll have to remember to check them after the leaves are out next June.