Talk:Common sunflower

Do sunflowers reduce your carbon footprint? By how much? -Amy 5/07/07

wow, i think that this is a very well done article. It has all the sections clearly labeled and it is easy to read. One small thing would maybe be to have less sections, although I do think that for showing so many different aspects of the sunflower you do a good job of keeping it focused. Overall well done, probably one of the best I have read. I would say try to simplify it a little bit, and are all the pictures relevant to the article? Adrian Arias — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aarias (talk • contribs)

New image

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Sunflower

I'd like to propose this image for the sunflower article.

Wow that's nice. Go ahead and add it to the gallery, if that's where you'd like it.--Niels Ø 17:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)Bold text

Unneccessary reference

Is Samurai Champloo important enough to be included in this article? It doesn't seem to add much to the article. Why's every article I look at have some reference to anime?

Why does every other article I read have reference to some American Sitcom or other live-action medium? It's a part of popular culture, that's why. The Sunflower Samurai as well as Sunflowers themselves are a HUGE central plot point that dominates almost every single episode.

So post it in the Samurai Champloo article. Anime is not central nor even moderately relevant to actual sunflowers.

If it is at the end, labeled, and sufficiently known information, why not have it? Pablo2garcia 00:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

why do sunflowers "want" to follow the sun?

what do they get out of it? is this known? guessed by relevant public work? I myself would even take a clue, here. (thats I really wanna get info on this) Bye and thanks. Pablo2garcia 00:25, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Heliotropic flowers are more prevalent among plants in alpine areas. The absorbed light makes the flowers warmer, which attracts more pollinating insects. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00336.x?cookieSet=1 May be the sunflower's heliotropism is a rudimentary feature from an alpine past? Ceinturion 12:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Pizarro?

It says that he cultivated them around 1000 B.C.... but this is impossible because Pizarro didn't even go to the Americas until the 16th century A.D.

Although the text did not say Pizarro cultivated sunflowers, the sentence has been rephrased. Ceinturion 12:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Other types and species of sunflower

There are many species in the genus Helianthus all of them "sunflowers", they possibly deserve a mention as do the decorative, dwarf and giant varieties that can aparently grow upto 7.76m (25ft 5.5in) tall. Some mention could also be made of sunflower growing competitions or how to grow them. 84.51.146.100 06:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

the reproduction of the sun flower

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sunflower with more than flower

i have grown sunflowers for a number of years on and off but i have one this year with 7 flowers growing from 1 stem is this rare  ? dave kay 31st july 2007 ty D.Kay82.42.68.30 16:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

A sunflower is not a weed

I made a comment about this on my Talk page, and I will copy an excerpt here as my source:

Here's a line from the beginning of the Weed article (emphasis mine):

Weeds may be unwanted because they are unsightly, or they limit the growth of other plants by blocking light or using up nutrients from the soil.

I would also agree with the "unsightly" definition to an extent, but you cannot generalize it to "any plants that are unwanted, or haven't been planted by the grower." What if, for example, an acorn is somehow brought onto the property (maybe by an animal)? Is the oak tree that grows from it considered a weed? --Procrastinatrix 18:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, in this very general sense, if the oak sprouts in the middle of a person's prize dahlia patch, they may yank it out as a weed. That's what a weed is, an undesired plant, not in its proper location according to some criterion. KP Botany 19:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Probably too many images

Wikipedia articles aren't really supposed to be general image gallery pages; ideally, each image should have a specific role in illustrating some fact about sunflowers. AnonMoos 07:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Sunflower

I don't understand this sentence...

"Sunflowers can be processed into a peanut butter alternative, Sunbutter, especially in China, Russia, the United States, the Middle East and Europe."

It seems redundant. It lists pretty much the whole world. maybe it should be rephrased?