Helianthus

• “I omitted to say that the word Helianthus is Greek for sunflower.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885

• “A couple of wannabes that I have on the place out by the pond are Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke.”

  August Playbook-GBBD « Fairegarden

• “The sunflower, Helianthus annuus, is a North American plant whose wild form looks like an aster or large daisy.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

• “The sunchoke is the nonfibrous, plump tuber of a North American sunflower Helianthus tuberosus, whose traditional and obscure name is “Jerusalem artichoke.””

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “Sunflower Seeds The flower of Helianthus annuus, the only North American native to become a significant world crop, is a composite of a hundred or more small flowers, each of which produces a small fruit like the “seed” of the strawberry, a single seed contained in a thin hull.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “Prehistoric sunflower Helianthus annuus L. domestication in Mexico.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “Cover illustration: Sunflower (Helianthus annuns L.)”

  Chapter 1

• “Two intercrop patterns and sole crops of mustard (Brassica hirta Moench) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) were planted in 1988 and 1989 on a silt loam soil to examine mechanisms for overyielding in this intercrop system.”

  1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.

• “An experiment was conducted to evaluate the intercropping systems with oilseed crops, viz. sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), sesame”

  1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.

• “Basella alba squash, Cucurbita spp. stone fruit, Prunus spp. sugarcane, Saccharum spp. sunflower, Helianthus annus sweet pepper.”

  14. Saving seeds for planting

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