SUNFLOWER 🌻

Sunflower, The grand sunflower: Unraveling its mysteries and meaning

The sunflower can perhaps be one of the best known and most famous flowers of the earth. Almost everyone saw it with its bright yellow petals and its tall stem. However, other than this beauty is loads of more information that could tell about properties and uses, its historical meanings, and many symbolic uses of sunflowers especially in cultures.

Properties and Uses of Sunflowers

Sunflowers are annual plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. Some popular flowers of this group include daisies, chrysanthemums, and asters. It is a native flora of North America. But it is now cultivated in many places.

Some facts associated with sunflowers:

1. Tall Stems :

Sunflowers can grow to a height of 12 feet (3.6 meters), which is some of the tallest blooming plants on Earth.

2. Big Bloomers :

Sunflowers can have blooms as big as 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter, all composed of hundreds of teeny flowers, one by one, really.

3. Food Seed :

The sunflower seed is a food that can be consumed directly, a perfect source of protein and fibers along with good fat…