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The sunflower is the symbol behind the Sunflower Movement, a 2014 mass protest in Taiwan . The Hidden Disabilities Sunflower was first used as a visible symbol (typically worn on a lanyard) May 2016 at London Gatwick Airport. It has since come into common usage throughout the UK, and in the Commonwealth more generally.
Most cultivars of sunflower are variants of H. annuus, but four other species (all perennials) are also domesticated. This includes H. tuberosus, the Jerusalem artichoke, which produces edible tubers. There are many species in the sunflower genus Helianthus, and many species in other genera that may be called sunflowers.
The Jerusalem artichoke ( Helianthus tuberosus ), also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, [ 2] topinambur, [ 2] or earth apple, is a species of sunflower native to central North America. [ 3][ 4] It is cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its tuber, which is used as a root vegetable. [ 5]
The Asteraceae were first described in the year 1740 and given the original name Compositae. [ 6] The family is commonly known as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family. Most species of Asteraceae are herbaceous plants, and may be annual, biennial, or perennial, but there are also shrubs, vines, and trees.
Heliotropism, a form of tropism, is the diurnal or seasonal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun . The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the Sun, a form of tropism, was already known by the Ancient Greeks. They named one of those plants after that property Heliotropium, meaning "sun turn".
Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the title of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles , shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase.
0805241450. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness is a book on the Holocaust by Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal, in which he recounts his experience with a mortally wounded Nazi during World War II. The book describes Wiesenthal's experience in the Lemberg concentration camp near Lviv and discusses the moral ethics ...
Helianthus californicus is a North American species of sunflower known by the common name California sunflower. It is native to California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitats. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Helianthus californicus is an erect perennial herb growing from a network of tough, woody roots with ...