Sunflower

The sunflower is a heliotropic flower, it means its ability to orient itself to the sun.

Chracteristics:

It is a large plant.
It has a thick stem.
It has deep roots with one main and a lot of secondaries.
Its leaves are large, ovals with three main veins and rough.
Its floral head has hundred of tubular flowers. Every Little flower produces a seed.

Part of the plant.

- Roots
- Stem
- Leaves
- Flower head    > Petals
                          > Many  tiny flowers -> Sunflower seeds

   

Reproduction

It has not direct reprodutive function, they use a cross pollination method,
 the flowers attract the insects and birds who made the pollination using them to spread reproductive pollen from one flower to another.

Fun facts

We can obtain a lot of products from sunflower plant:

          - Sunflower seeds
          - Sunflower oil
          - The petals can be eaten in salads and tea.
          - The seeds are also bird feed.

The most of sunflower grows for the human consumption

Vicent Van Gogh paint a very famous pictures called "The sunflowers"