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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Sunflower(সূর্যমুখী ফুল) - Helianthus annuus

We know sunflower as an ornamental flowering plant that increases the value of a garden. But from last few decades, farmers from our country has been started to cultivate Sunflower on a large scale. Their main target is the sunflower seeds that has a high demand for producing vegetable oil.



Botanical name of this multipurpose plant is Helianthus annuus. It belongs to the plant family Asteraceae. This is native to America but widely cultivating at our country now a days. We call this Surjomukhi Ful(সূর্যমুখী ফুল) which means a flower that faces to the sun, or a flower that has a face of a sun. Both the case is true for the flower's nomenclature.



Sunflower is an annual plant and the plausible single flower actually an inflorescence. The circular head of the flower is actually comprises of 1000-2000 of small flowers. Color of the flower is yellow and the daisy flower like petals are not the actual petal.

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