Sunflower
do nothing but watch his chariot move across the sky. After nine days, she was
transformed into a sunflower. However, the word "sunflower" and its cognates existed
long before Helianthus annuus was brought to Europe, and it is thought that the myth
(which is mentioned in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses) actually refers to heliotrope or
marigold.
Trivia
· The sunflower is the state flower of the U.S. state of Kansas, and one of the city
flowers of Kitakyushu, Japan.
· The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosa) is related to the sunflower. The
Mexican sunflower is Tithonia rotundifolia. False sunflower refers to plants of
the genus Heliopsis.
· Scientific literature reports, from 1567, that a 12 m (40'), traditional, single-head,
sunflower plant was grown in Padua. The same seed lot grew almost 8 m (24') at
other times and places (e.g. Madrid). Much more recent feats (past score years) of
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