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Abstract :

The microscopic Image of the residue of an evaporated water drop shows a phyllotactic pattern that formed during the evaporation of the water droplet on a silicon wafer.

This image is a proof that Water itself must be the main contributor which causes Phyllotaxis ! The pysical process Evaporation, coloumb forces and electric charge caused either by radiation ( electron beam / or light )

or evaporation also seem to play a role in the pattern formation, and in the precise orientation and positioning of the water clusters in the phyllotactic pattern, as my own experiments indicated.

Important for the formation of a phyllotactic Fibonacci Pattern seems to be a large Central Water Cluster, that may have icosahedral MacKay-geometry, consisting of large icosahedral Sub-Clusters formed by the

stable icosahedral water clusters (H2O)100 or (H2O)280. Typical cluster numbers of Mackay-Clusters are 13 and 55 which are Fibonacci Numbers !

Additional proof comes from SEM-Images of the Sunflower Capitulum.

These images indicate that new primordia are caused by rhombic crystals, which seem to be either ice-crystals or large water cluster crystals that formed with the help of special proteins