Ella was still on her golden ratio hunt and it was taking her all over the castle. She'd read up on the subject, y'know, and she'd seen that plants can be an excellent example of the golden ratio. Especially those plants that had spirals. Like...spirals within the seeds or even on their leaves and petals. That was kind of awesome, actually.
Ella wandered into the tower patch and headed right for one of the garden beds, eyes on the different plant life growing there. Surely there was a good example of the golden ratio somewhere up here. Hmmmm.
Oh! Here was a plant who's leaves rotated in a spiral! This was it, yeah? One of the plants she'd read about. The blonde quickly bent down and starting counting the number of leaves, noting how they rotated, and sorting out what that meant. It'd all lead to whether or not this plant was part of the golden ratio.
SPOILER!!: Arithmancy Notes
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The second thing I found that was a representation of the golden ratio was a plant in the tower path. The leaves of the plant spiral which is indicative of the golden ration being present.
I think the golden ratio is important for plants because firstly, it's aesthetically pleasing. That's why people give flowers as gifts and grow them in their gardens. They look really nice. Secondly, the rotation of the leaves on this plant make it so that all the leaves can get the sunlight that they need! None of the leaves are really completely blocking any of the other ones! That's really important too.