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Helianthus ( / ˌhiːliˈænθəs /) [ 3] is a genus comprising about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers. [ 4][ 5] Except for three South American species, the species of Helianthus are native to North America and Central America.
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.
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]
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.
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".
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The genus Helichrysum / hɛlɪˈkraɪsəm / consists of an estimated 600 species of flowering plants in the sunflower family ( Asteraceae ). The type species is Helichrysum orientale. They often go by the names everlasting, immortelle, and strawflower. [citation needed] The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words ἥλιος (helios, sun ...
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