Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The sunflower is an annual flower native to the Americas. It has a large flowering head and the stem of the flower can grow as high as 3 meters tall! What is usually called the flower is actually a head of many flowers bunched crowded together. An interesting fact about the sunflower is that the florets, tiny flowers, are arranged in a golden spiral, which is like God's fingerprint and is found in nature numerously.

Sunflower head displaying florets in spirals of 34 and 55 around the outside

At sunrise young sunflowers turn torwards the sun. Over the day the keep moving their heads with the sun.

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