11-19-2008, 04:11 PM
Woolfe Wrote:Helianthus for sunflowers, not Heliotropes. :tongue:
Going with sunflower, however...
Sunflower > Oil
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Heliotropes are SUN flowers... Their scent is used in perfumery, I believe.
because they follow the course of the sun during the daytime, but thanks for your comment. I'll admit the colours were misleading...
And oil is a good follow up to sunflower, so is seed...
heliotrope noun
1 a garden plant of the borage family, with small fragrant lilac-blue flowers which grow towards the Sun.
2 the colour of these flowers.
heliotropic or heliotropical adj.
heliotropically adverb.
[17c: helio- + Greek trepein to turn.]
helianthus noun a plant of the sunflower genus.
[18c: helio- + anthos flower.]
sunflower
noun a annual plant that can grow to around 3m (about 10ft) in height and which produces large flattened circular flowerheads of up to 50cm (about 20in) diameter that have a great many closely-packed seeds in the middle and yellow petals radiating outwards. It is widely cultivated as a garden plant and for its seeds which are rich in edible oil.