If you want to learn more about the Fibonacci sequence in nature, this isn’t the place to do it. It is a fascinating topic and there are many sites on the internet with all you could hope to learn. There are even some sites dealing specifically with the Fibonacci sequence in cacti. In this post, however, I am simply going to share some cacti photos…perfectly prickly patterns.
One Sunday morning during a recent trip to London, I visited the arrid room of the Barbican Conservatory with my daughter Kimi. I spent a happy hour or so looking at details of these plants through a camera lens.
Cacti are definitely strange-looking plants that could have been designed by sci-fi writers to inhabit dystopian landscapes. Certainly the natural environments in which many of them originally evolved and thrive are often stark and harsh. And their characteristic spines present a formidable defense mechanism, as anyone unfortunate enough to have had an upfront and personal encounter with a cactus can attest.
They are also remarkably beautiful plants, often as a result of their prickly patterns… viewed from a distance…
…or a bit closer…
There are wide varieties of cacti, with some not fitting the typical image at all…”windswept” spines, for example…
…or something rather like a sponge or a brain…
Their flowers can be beautiful also, in a traditional way…
…or they can be distinctly odd…
But always such intriguing patterns. I must spend some time photographing the cacti in my own garden at home soon.
After the arrid room and its cacti, Kimi and I went on to brunch, which was beautiful in another manner entirely!
Right Steps & Poui Trees 