Italiano
If you think vegetables are boring, maybe you’ve never looked closely at a Romanesco broccoli.
Even more than the flavour, what’s amazing about this vegetable is the shape.
In fact, this is a fractal: a geometrical figure repeated in its form in the same way on different scales.
By enlarging any part of it, a figure similar to the original is obtained (the one that in mathematics is called homothety).
The spirals of Romanesco broccoli are composed of sequences of flower buds that have never blossomed.
Each gem contains smaller gems, with the same geometry, and all are arranged according to a logarithmic spiral.
Depending on the size, Romanesco broccoli can have 5, 8, 13, 21 spirals… anyhow, a number present in the Fibonacci sequence.
Mindblowing, isn’t it?
P.S.: more interesting facts about vegetables here
