Sunflower With Honeybee
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Sunflower With Honeybee
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A honeybee visits a beautiful sunflower.
The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence (flowering head), and its name is derived from the flower's shape and image, which is often used to capture the sun. The plant has a rough, hairy stem, broad, coarsely toothed, rough leaves, and circular flower heads. The heads consist of many individual flowers which mature into seeds, often in the hundreds, on a receptacle base. From the Americas, sunflower seeds were brought to Europe in the 16th century, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a widespread cooking ingredient. Leaves of the sunflower can be used as cattle feed, while the stems contain a fiber useful in paper production. Sunflower seeds are delicious to eat and can be eaten raw, roasted or made into sunflower butter.
Featured on Nature Photography 1 Per Day (1/26/2014); World of Sunflowers (1/26/2014); Weekly FUN For ALL Mediums (2/02/2014); Flower Photography (02/03/2014)
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January 24th, 2014
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