Sunflower Seed By Agribase Commodities

Botanically termed as Helianthus Annuus, the sunflower is an annual flowering plant in Asteraceae family. This plant is famous for its extremely large and vividly yellow blooms. A native to South America, it was domesticated around 1500 BC. They are now cultivated worldwide for their oil-rich and highly nutritious seeds.

The sunflower plant is about 3-5a tall, with a light green, pale reddish green, or purple stem. The leaf blades are up to 7a long and 3a across; they are broadly lanceolate to ovate with long slender tips and sharply serrated margins. Its flowers are actually composed of hundreds of tiny florets (small flowers) packed together. Sunflowers actually follow the sun, with heads which face east in the morning, and slowly track the sun across the sky.