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Mutant mint

Mint leaves grow in pairs, each successive pair at 90 degrees to the one below. This plant, however, has leaves in threes, each trio offset from the one below by 60 degrees. Its neighbours in the garden bed are all normal mint plants with their leaves in pairs.

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Uploaded on October 25, 2012
Taken on October 25, 2012