The flower had many concentric cycles of petal-like ... where petals overlap in a spiral arrangement around the stem, like a lotus. "For some of the features we studied, the result was surprising ...

Robba sells premade arrangements for $25 to $3500, but on Saturdays you can visit his Coral Gables boutique and commission your very own sculpture. He also sells his flowers by the stem for $6 to $30.

"It's pretty quick, within a day or two, it's reoriented its main stem so that now all the flowers are in the right position," he told BBC News. "The slightly more interesting ones were where each ...