New Theoretical Insights Unraveling Color Pattern in the Flowers of Passiflora incarnata

Abstract

The change in the color pattern of the petals of Passiflora incarnata is studied using the chaos theory in the form of logistic maps and plotted using the corresponding bifurcation diagram. Based on a colorful inspection of the beginning of violet-colored dots along the filament of the flower's bud stage and the emergence of alternating bands of violet and white color in the matured bloom, it is possible to deduce that a two-degree model for polynomial mapping can be used to study color oscillations in the flower.