Virtual phyllotaxis and real plant model cases

Phyllotaxis is the distribution of lateral organs in plants. The organ primordia are initiated reiteratively (Hofmeister 1868) on the organogenic surface of the shoot apical meristem (SAM). The regularity of phyllotactic patterns has always puzzled scientists. Today there is still no exaggeration in quoting Darwin’s famous statement and saying, that both phyllotactic diversity and