The Autumn Leaf pattern ware is not quite an antique, but more vintage as collector Marion Bertelsen, of Holmen, Wis., tells: “I have a setting of 10, was my mom’s!

While most leaf arrangement patterns keep a constant divergence angle, the O. japonica shrub, which is native to Japan and other parts of East Asia, grows leaves in an alternating series of four ...

The circle labeled 1 would have been formed just previously, and it forms the golden angle with bud 0. ... A surprising number of plants have spiral patterns in which each leaf, ...