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The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the daisy family Asteraceae. The common sunflower is harvested for its edible oily seeds, which are often eaten as a snack food. They are also used in the production of cooking oil, as food for livestock, as bird food, and as a plantings in domestic gardens for ...
Each "flower" is actually a disc made up of tiny flowers, to form a larger false flower to better attract pollinators. The plants bear one or more wide, terminal capitula (flower heads made up of many tiny flowers), with bright yellow ray florets (mini flowers inside a flower head) at the outside and yellow or maroon (also known as a brown/red ...
He created fifty different block-printed wallpapers, all with intricate, stylised patterns based on nature, particularly upon the native flowers and plants of Britain. His wallpapers and textile designs had a major effect on British interior designs, and then upon the subsequent Art Nouveau movement in Europe and the United States. [1]
As cases of the HMPV virus continue to increase in the U.S. and in China, here's what you need to know about the virus.
Bulb Fields, also known as Flower Beds in Holland, is an oil painting created by Vincent van Gogh in early 1883. It was donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 1983. Bulb Fields was Van Gogh's first garden painting, in oil paint on canvas mounted on wood.
Sean Manaea was taken by the New York Mets' family feeling, just like Juan Soto. Manaea, who turns 33 on Feb. 1, had signed two-year deals in each of the previous two offseasons, first a $25 ...
A New Mexico woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this week after killing her daughter’s teenage boyfriend and then trying to pin the crime on her own son, according to authorities.
The inflorescence bears one or more flower head, sometimes more than one on the same stem, [10] blooming from May to July. [5] Each head has a center of long yellowish tubular disc florets and a fringe of 8–25 bright yellow ray florets, each up to 4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long. [5] The fruit is a hairless achene about 8 millimetres (3 ⁄ 8 in ...