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  • The Fibonacci sequence can be found many places as well, such as in the ancestry patterns of bees, the branching of trees, the whorls of a sunflower and the fruitlets of a pineapple.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • The Fibonacci sequence can be found many places as well, such as in the ancestry patterns of bees, the branching of trees, the whorls of a sunflower and the fruitlets of a pineapple.

    The Wonder of the Golden Proportions Heather McDougal 2007

  • A pineapple is an inflorescence that fuses many berry-like fruitlets into a thorn-tipped aberration.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • A pineapple is an inflorescence that fuses many berry-like fruitlets into a thorn-tipped aberration.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • A pineapple is an inflorescence that fuses many berry-like fruitlets into a thorn-tipped aberration.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The fruit is formed from the stem, which is surrounded by nearly 200 individual fruitlets fused together.

    The Pineapple: Sweet Symbol of the Tropics 2005

  • The fruit is formed from the stem, which is surrounded by nearly 200 individual fruitlets fused together.

    The Pineapple: Sweet Symbol of the Tropics 2005

  • Pineapples consist of spirals of separate seedless fruitlets, between 100 and 200 of which fuse together and become joined to a central core.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • With their dull, dry rind surrounding two layered chambers of translucent, ruby-like fruitlets there are also pale and yellow varieties, they figured very early in mythology and art.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • In northern India, pomegranate fruitlets are dried and ground for use as an acidifying powder.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

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