Sunflower

Thinking about sunflower the first thing that comes to your mind are yellow colour flowers. Here are some facts about sunflowers that you didn’t know about.

Colours

Sunflower is not only of yellow colour. It also comes in red and purple colour.

Yellow colour sunflower species are tallest of all.

Red sunflower comes in various species. Some of them have head like the daisy flower.

Purple sunflowers have 5 feet height approximately and has no pollen which makes it easier for cutting.

Height

Some sunflowers are tall while some are dwarf. The tall ones grow in field and have height up to 12 to 16 feet or more. Dwarf sunflowers are planted it pots and grow there. They don’t grow more than 3 feet.

Sun trackers

Heliotropism is the phenomenon in which the growth of plants is towards the sun.

Young sunflowers grow towards the sun. A young sunflower’s face follows the sun from sunrise to sunset until they mature.

Other facts

There are about 70 species of sunflower.

Sunflowers are also planted to soak nuclear radiations.

Each sunflower can contain 1000 to 2000 seeds.

Sunflowers should be harvested in the morning and not in the afternoon.