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Sunflowers are iconic members of the vast world of flowers. Visit any legitimate floral shop, and you'll see them distinctly brightening up the space and remaining a popular option through the passing years.
If you're a floral enthusiast or you're looking for the perfect flower to send someone, you might take an interest in these interesting facts you may not have known about sunflowers!
One famous fact about sunflowers is that young plants move to follow the sun. As the sun moves across the sky, so do the flowers. It’s an interesting phenomenon because it shows just how full of life these flowers are.
While sunflowers are young, they will always follow the sun’s movement without fail. Once they have fully bloomed and reached their peak, however, they will only face the east to attract pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, and beetles.
Because they want to track the direction of the sun, sunflowers have their own biological clock to alert themselves and neighbouring flowers about the position of the sun.
So, in essence, sunflowers have a sense of time. This is what allows them to move in the direction they're facing depending on the time of day so that they always have the direct rays of sunlight.
If you think about it, you can imagine having a field of sunflowers that grows in height by a foot over a short period of time and then easily becomes a wonderful and unforgettable sight.
You may not know it, but sunflowers naturally reach very tall heights. The average sunflower can hit up to around six to ten feet if cared for properly. In some cases, the tallest recorded sunflower reached a whopping thirty feet. According to experts, it's possible for sunflowers to potentially grow even taller than this.
Sunflowers don't just cleanse bad moods with their naturally uplifting appearance. They actually clean the environment they are in because they can absorb radiation and other toxins and contaminants that can harm humans.
This is why they were planted in major sites of nuclear fallout and lead contamination in order to clean up the land and air. You can plant them to keep the air around you fresh on top of making your space look beautiful.
The large yellow head of a sunflower is actually made up of individual flowers called florets that reach up to thousands per total sunflower. This is what makes them so attractive to pollinators since they carry a ton of nectar.
There are over fifty different species of sunflowers that have been identified worldwide, and they are spread out all over the world.
Their appeal and beauty are so widespread that even people that don't particularly take an interest in gardening love them and want to grow them. The various types of species actually result in sunflowers that aren't just yellow!
Sunflowers have been around for thousands of years and are considered one of the most important flowers in the world as they spread their beauty and positivity all across the globe. Be it a birthday flower delivery or anniversary present, sunflowers are a great option.
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