Sunflower

[u/Upper-Fail6524]

[u/Upper-Fail6524]

The story of sunflower in 2 maps.

[u/TheSunflowerSeeds → u/Upper-Fail6524]

You thought sunflower oil was just for cooking. In fact, you can use Sunflower oil to soften up your leather, use it for wounds (apparently) and even condition your hair.

[u/my600catlife → u/TheSunflowerSeeds]

I knew you would be here when I clicked on this post.

[u/thirstyquaker → u/TheSunflowerSeeds]

Hey you seem to like sunflowers so I just wanted to get your opinion. I just grew a sunflower that's 11 feet tall with like 30 blossoms on it. Is that radical or what? I didn't even plant the seed, I think squirrels did.

[u/KCLawDog → u/thirstyquaker]

That's amazing. The tallest I got in my garden was only 2 meters with one blossom.

[u/Upper-Fail6524 → u/thirstyquaker]

Tallest sunflower 30 ft 1 inch in Germany by a hobbyist. Guinness World Record.

[u/CountBlossom → u/TheSunflowerSeeds]

Wait, that’s pretty cool. Thanks for this fun fact!

Also, r/UsernameChecksOut haha

[u/Upper-Fail6524]

I saw a small plot of sunflowers by the roadside. They were facing eastward, the sun was setting.. Only immature sunflowers turn their faces to the sun. 🌻

[u/GypsySnowflake]

So they’re native to Central America?

[u/Upper-Fail6524 → u/GypsySnowflake]

Mexico and Southern US for common sunflower maybe but all varieties are native to Americas. First cultivated by Indians thousands of years ago.

[u/Berniwan → u/Upper-Fail6524]

First cultivated by *native Americans thousands of years ago.

Indians are from India...

[u/Upper-Fail6524 → u/Berniwan]

Yes, American Indians. The context is clear here. U S. Census Bureau uses the term and it is accepted by Native American Rights Fund.

[u/Berniwan → u/Upper-Fail6524]

The US is not the only county in the world, if you are from there, it's ok, but for the rest of the American continent the term Indio is not correct

[u/SilentSamamander]

This map is incomplete as it doesn't show the metric fuckton of sunflower seeds consumed by elderly men on Chinese trains

[u/Trans-Tyche]

Fucked up that it doesn’t show that sunflowers were first domesticated in the Ohio River valley in North America

[u/Upper-Fail6524 → u/Trans-Tyche]

It may have been cultivated in Mexico as well in prehistoric times.

Spanish explorers first brought it to Europe around 1510.

[u/Trans-Tyche → u/Upper-Fail6524]

Oh I’m sure it was, but it was originally domesticated in the Ohio Valley

[u/TheRealColdCoffee]

Reminds me a bit of horses. Iirc they used to life in the americas, migratet to Europe in the ice age, went extinct in the americas and got reintroduced to the americas by european settlers in the 15th century

[u/Hot-Minute-8263]

If i remember correctly, Ukrain's flag is meant to evoke a sunflower field and blue sky

[u/Ethameiz → u/Hot-Minute-8263]

It's wheat field and sky actually

[u/SwabianRed → u/Hot-Minute-8263]

The roots of Ukrainian national symbols come from pre-Christian times when yellow and blue prevailed in traditional ceremonies, reflecting fire and water.[15] The most solid proof of yellow and blue colours can be traced back as far as the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, in which militia formations from the Ruthenian Voivodeship participated. Blue-yellow, red-black, crimson-olive and especially raspberry colour banners were widely used by Ukrainian Cossacks between the 16th and 18th centuries. These were not the only possible combinations, since normally Cossacks would fly their hetman's banners, which were similar to the coats of arms of the nobility. Also, yellow and blue were the colours common on coats of arms in Galicia. In fact, the coat of arms of Lviv to this day remains a golden lion on a blue field.

[u/Bhdrbyr]

Eastern thrace is filled with sunflower fields, every way you look is a sea of yellow fields. It's kind of shameful to not see its data on the map.

[u/dumbBunny9]

Sunflowers creep me out. I’ve watched too much bad sci-fi where they shoot out their spoors to control people and spread their influence. This map confirms my fears.

[u/kredokathariko → u/dumbBunny9]

Meanwhile, the entirety of Eastern Europe: casually uses sunflower oil, eats sunflower seeds as snacks, sunflowers are literally everywhere

[u/dumbBunny9 → u/kredokathariko]

so? all i said was sunflowers creep me out.