Sunflower and Sunshine

This photo was taken in a sunflower filed near Ruse, Bulgaria. Texture from FrenchKissCollections. ... more

by Ivelina G

Title

Sunflower and Sunshine

Artist

Ivelina G

Medium

Photograph - Digitally Processed

Description

This photo was taken in a sunflower filed near Ruse, Bulgaria. Texture from FrenchKissCollections.
"Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence (flowering head). The sunflower is named after its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image are often used to depict the sun. It has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves and circular heads of flowers. The heads consist of many individual flowers which mature into seeds...From the Americas, sunflower seeds were brought to Europe in the 16th century, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a widespread cooking ingredient. Leaves of the sunflower can be used as cattle feed, while the stems contain a fibre which may be used in paper production...Sunflowers can be used in phytoremediation to extract toxic ingredients from soil, such as lead, arsenic and uranium. They were used to remove caesium-137 and strontium-90 from a nearby pond after the Chernobyl disaster..."
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December 10th, 2012