03/02/2020
DID YOU KNOW ❓
✔️Sunflower is the only flower with flower in its name!
✔️“Helianthus” is the scientific name of Sunflower, Helia for Sun and Anthus for Flower.
✔️Sunflowers are the symbol of faith, loyalty and adoration.
✔️They follow the movement of the sun across the sky from east to west, and this process is known as heliotropism.
✔️Sunflower oil was able to soften leather, condition hair, wounds, and also used as cooking oil, medicine paint, animal feed and bio-diesel.
✔️Oil of sunflower is rich in minerals like calcium and iron and contains vitamin A and Vitamin D.
✔️Sunflowers are one of the fastest growing plants and they grow tall. On an average they grow up to 8-12 feet within six months.
✔️The Guinness world record for the tallest sunflower is 25 feet 5 ½ inches, grown by M Heijims in Oirschot, Netherlands in1986.
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.” ― Helen Keller
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