Yesterday's clue:
Leaves arrangement, scatters tens to pay Hill (11)
Its solution: PHYLLOTAXIS = XS + TO + PAY + HILL
XS = 10's
Phyllotaxis (also referred to as Phyllotaxy) means the way leaves of a plant are placed along the length of its stalk.
"Erukku" (எருக்கு) is a plant growing wildly. In Tamizh they say Erukku has grown in a land to mean it has been neglected. People buy a plot of land with the intention of selling it later or building a house in distant future. Often we see erukku growing there. The leaves of erukku exhibit nice perpendicular arrangement.
Arali (Oleander?) and Kariveppilai show a circular arrangement.
Spiral arrangement in other parts of the plants (sunflower's seeds, pine tree's cones) has been a subject of research. The distances in the spiral arrangement being related to Fibonacci sequence of numbers (1,1,2,3,5,8,13, 21 ....).
Though Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci studied them in the years around 1200, it came up much earlier in Pingala's work on Sanskrit prosody counting combinations of different kinds of syllables.
This Fibonacci sequence has a tendency to show up in unexpected places that the website for Python Programming language has the code for generating it right at its home page:
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