On This Day:
Monday July 27, 2009
This is the 208th day of the year, with 157 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: sunflower
Sunflower heads consist of 1,000 to 2,000 individual flowers joined
together by a receptacle base. The large petals around the edge of a
sunflower head are individual ray flowers which do not develop into
seed. A sunflower is ready to harvest when the back portion of the head
turns brown. Floating rafts of sunflowers were used to clean up water
contaminated by the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the
former Soviet Union. The roots of the sunflower plants removed 95% of
the radioactivity in the water by pulling contaminants out of the water.
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