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Golden angle

Why Does a Sunflower Have 21 and 34 Spirals?

0:36 · 26 Oct 2026

Count the spirals both ways and you'll land on two Fibonacci numbers — here's why.

The rule

Turn every new seed by 137.5° and a sunflower appears. Change it by one degree and it falls apart.

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