Did you know?

A sunflower isn’t just one flower!

It’s a compound flower made of a whole lot of little flowers called florets. ray florets The colourful are around the edges. disc florets The are in the centre where the seeds grow.

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2. Because they grow so fast, sunflowers need plenty of _ _ _ _ 4. Helianthus is the scientific name of sunflower, Heli for Sun and Anthus for _ _ _ _ _ _ 5. Sunflowers don’t like being transplanted because they have deep _ _ _ _ _ 7. Sunflower seeds contain loads of minerals and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Sunflowers grow very fast in which season?

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1. Food bees get from sunflowers. 3. A good month to plant sunflower seeds. 4. Yates Sunflower ‘Ginormous _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _’ is a huge Sunflower variety you can grow from seed. 6. Heliotropism is when sunflowers turn to face the _ _ _ 8. This part of the sunflower is rich in oil.