2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The scorching rays of the sun are turning fertile lands into deserts. But without the Sun, life on Earth could not have taken place. Today, when the autumn sun shines brightly, but almost does not warm in winter, let us remember the plants that worship the Luminary, checking their life rhythm with its movement across the firmament
Sunflower
The most faithful admirer of the Sun has been familiar to us since childhood. In children's drawings, the bright sun often looks like a sunflower basket. They are so intertwined in our imagination that you will not immediately understand whether the Sunflower soared into the endless blue, or the sun descended from the heavens to the summer cottage garden.
Young baskets of the Sunflower with a golden halo of petals faithfully turn their young heads following the trajectory of the Sun. When gray-eyed or black-eyed seeds are filled with oily content, it becomes more difficult for the basket to track the movement of the Luminary. Then, sitting on a strong stem, they turn their faces of the sun to the East, welcoming the appearance of the first rays of the Sun.
In cloudy weather, the sunflower seems to be orphaned, bending the baskets to the surface of the earth.
In addition to the Sunflower, there are plants whose names begin with the prefix "helio" or "helia", indicating that their flowers are not indifferent to the clear sun.
Heliopsis
This plant is not suitable for the production of vegetable oil, although its flowers strongly resemble the sunflower baskets of a Sunflower. For this similarity, some call it "False Sunflower".
But man is content with “not bread alone,” or rather butter. Decorative intense yellow or bright orange flowers will adorn any flower garden located in a sunny place. Although sometimes they even put up with partial shade.
The plant can be annual or perennial, and its elegant sunny flowers are simple or double.
Heliantemum
Among the plants of the unpretentious genus Heliantemum (or Sunflower) there are especially ardent fans of the Sun. With the rising of the Sun, the perennial plant opens the flower petals, faithfully turning them towards the sun's rays.
When the tired Sun tilts towards the West, hiding behind the horizon, the flower petals close tightly, leaving for rest. But some species mournfully shed petals that have lived only one day on the cooling ground. Such devotion can be envied or admired.
In order to meet the Sun in full dress the next morning, Heliantemum is forced to bloom profusely, so that the fallen flowers will be replaced by new ones, welcoming the sunrise. This happens throughout the summer cottage period.
Heliotrope
The Heliotrope flowers, like the young flower baskets of the Sunflower, vigilantly track the movement of the solar disk across the blue sky throughout the daylight hours. It is not for nothing that botanists called the plant "Heliotrope", which translated from Greek into a language we understand means "turning with the sun."
But, unlike the orange-yellow flowers of the Sunflower, the heliotrope inflorescences are collected from small purple or white flowers exuding a pleasant aroma. True, wild species, as a rule, possess aroma, and the fruits of breeding work have lost this gift of God, which did not seem important to the breeders and so necessary for the plant. This does not prevent them from remaining worshipers of the Sun.
Helipterum
Another Greek word combination that translates as "sun" and "wing."
The flowers of Helipterum are not as fanatical of the Sun as the plants described above, although they have a mention of it in their name. They keep on slender stems for a long time, do not track the path of the Luminary across the sky, but have one feature that sets them apart from living flowers.
Unlike the delicate petals of most ornamental plants, including those with a special attitude to the Sun, the Helipterum petals seem to have been created not by nature, but by the hands of a person who used thin crunchy sheets of paper to create them. Perhaps it is the structure of the matter of the petals that gave rise to the name.
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