"Heliotropism
Whole seed (right) and kernel with hull removed (left)
A common misconception is that sunflowers track the sun.
[7] In fact, mature flowerheads typically face east and do not move. The leaves and buds of young sunflowers do exhibit
heliotropism (sun turning). Their orientation changes from east to west during the course of a day.
[8] The movements become a
circadian response and when plants are rotated 180 degrees, the old response pattern is still followed for a few days, with leaf orientation changing from west to east instead.
[9] The leaf and flowerhead bud
phototropism occurs while the leaf petioles and stems are still actively growing, but once mature, the movements stop. These movements involve the petioles bending or twisting during the day then unbending or untwisting at night."
"Mathematical model of floret arrangement
Illustration of Vogel's model for
n=1 ... 500
where θ is the angle,
r is the radius or distance from the center, and
n is the index number of the floret and
c is a constant scaling factor. It is a form of
Fermat's spiral. The angle 137.5° is related to the
golden ratio (55/144 of a circular angle, where 55 and 144 are
Fibonacci numbers) and gives a close packing of florets. This model has been used to produce computer graphics representations of sunflowers.
[19]"
All this mathematics...does it look to you like BLIND EVOLUTION?
Or GENETIC ENGINEERING...from above...and outside Earth?
:)
Happy Blue Monday! (meme)