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  • COMMON NAME: Common Sunflower, Sunflower.
  • ARABIC: عباد الشمس
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Helianthus annuus L.
  • SYNONYMS: Helianthus platycephalus Cass.,
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L) Fruits (F) Apiculture (A) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:119003-2/general-information
Ornamental plant. Honey nectar plants. Sunflower "whole seed" (fruit) are sold as a snack food, raw or after roasting in ovens, with or without salt and/or seasonings added. Sunflowers can be processed into a peanut butter alternative, sunflower butter. Sunflower oil, extracted from the seeds, is used for cooking, as a carrier oil and to produce margarine and biodiesel, as it is cheaper than olive oil.
These escapes are small annual herbs, 20–120 cm high. Leaves alternate, ovate, to 8 x 3.5 cm and scabridulous to the touch, petiolate. Capitula terminal and solitary; ray florets ± 14, yellow, 35 x 10 mm; disc florets very many, yellow orange. Flowering from March-August.
Cultivated, Grows in gardens, parks, homes and roadsides.
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