Sunflowers are some very interesting and beautiful flowers.
Sunflowers are some pretty flowers. Let’s find out more about them!
- Sunflower is the only flower with flower in its name!
- Sunflower is a living annual plant.
- It belongs to the family of Asteraceae.
- Its scientific name is Helianthus.
- Sunflowers were “born” to America and more specifically to North America.
- Their “birthdate” was around 3000BC
- When America was conquered by Spanish, they were exported in Europe by them.
- It was around 1500.
- Helia stands for Sun and Anthus for Flower.
- Sunflowers symbolize faith, loyalty, and adoration.
- Sunflowers follow movement of the sun across the sky from east to west and that makes them really connected to the sun as their name says.
- This process is known as heliotropism.
- Mature sunflowers usually face east.
- There are more than 60 varieties of sunflowers that exist around the world.
- Some of these varieties have striped petals.
- In case you cut a sunflower it will last in a vase from 5-12 days.
- If you take care of them, they can last a bit longer.
- In 2012, U.S. astronaut Don Pettit brought along a few companions to the International Space Station: sunflower seeds.
- In Mexico, they are considered to heal chest pain.
- Some American tribes agree on that!
- Each sunflower’s head is made of smaller flowers.
- They can grow as tall as 16 feet.
- Flowers planted too close together will compete and not blossom to their full potential.
- Sunflowers have sunflower oil.
- This kind of oil is low-fat.
- Tsar Peter the Great was so excited by the sunflowers he saw in the Netherlands.
- So, he brought them back to Russia.
- The largest sunflower is 30 feet and 1 inch.
- They can be used as scrubbing buds.
- The petals we see around the outside are called ray florets and can’t be reproduced.
