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Before we can tackle some specific new technical tidbits, which this paper hopes to contribute to the study of the geometry of plants, we must deal with the first term in the title. You are not expected to know it, because I coined it only recently. Before I define it, I beg you to examine Figure 1, which is the bottom half of the combined Figures 1 and 2.
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Mandelbrot, B.B. (1978). The Fractal Geometry of Trees and Other Natural Phenomena. In: Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (eds) Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8_20
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