American Journal of Botany, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Apr., 1982), pp. 638-640 (3 pages) Branching patterns of leader shoots and lower branches were compared in 15 sugar maple trees. The number of first-order ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in ...

Behind the dazzling variety of shapes and forms in trees lies a remarkably similar architecture based on fundamental, shared principles, ecologists have discovered. The findings allow scientists to ...