Sentence examples for sunflower head from inspiring English sources

It is most familiar as the arrangement of the florets that make up a sunflower head.

Nash painted right up to his death in 1946, and the work in the final room of this marvellous show is bold and surprising, and certainly visionary – how else to describe a huge sunflower head spinning down a hill, or a great magnolia flying in the sky?

Prevailing temperature at anthesis influences pollen health, fertilisation, seed filling, oil and fatty acid accumulation in different circles of sunflower head.

Bartok was particularly entranced by the so-called Golden Mean, the proportion of about 1.618 that crops up in natural forms and patterns – from the logarithmic spirals of snail shells to the arrangements of seeds in a sunflower head.

Field experiments were conducted, during 2007 and 2008, at Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to document oil and fatty acid distributions in different circles of sunflower head.

Results of picking force showed that with increasing number of days after appearing the first petal on each head from 5 to 14 and decreasing loading rate from 150 g min−1 to 50 g min−1 values of picking force were decreased for three varieties, but diameter of sunflower head had different effects on picking force for each variety.

Similarly, the spirals in sunflower heads and pine cones follow the mathematical Fibonacci series.

Sunflower heads, garden orache, sedums, verbenas, lemon balm, lamiums, rose hips, teasels and ornamental grasses can be woven in.

What gave rise to the spiral designs in seashells, fiddlehead ferns, and sunflower heads?

Bird damage begins after the ray petals drop from the ripening sunflower heads and achenes begin to develop.

Wild bee visitation to sunflower heads was higher at 10 m compared to 75 and 150 m from the DR, but differences in honey bee visitation were non-significant.