It doesn't look much like one. From the branch radiate the stalk, one arm ending in a slight curve which is a harbinger of tail spirals, and one arm that has a would be head spiral. It has two additional arms. The images below show five buds further along the trail into the Valley, and their attendant seahorses. Note how the seahorse takes shape.
Spiral arms wind tighter and spirals become more spiral the further into the cleft one zooms.
Not only do they crop up inside of the large Mandelbrot set, they turn up in completely unrelated formulas too. Mini Mandelbrots have every feature of the main set replicated, including all the buds, the seahorses, and the spirals. Mini Mandelbrot in a magnetic phase transition formula. A mini Mandelbrot can often be found where there is a symmetrical pair of spirals or other objects. Mini mandelbrots have an amazing ability in fact.