Mainz Daily Photo

>Summer’s here… – #491

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..when sunflowers turn up on the market.

Trivia Alert:

The Italian name is Girasole from their habit of rubbernecking to follow the sun. (“girare” – to turn + “sole” – the sun.

One species of the genus is cultivated for its edible tubers – Jerusalem artichokes.

Nothing to do with the Holy Land – just a phonetic adoption from the Latin

16 Jul This entry was published on 16 July, 2008 at 11:00. It’s filed under Mainz and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

2 thoughts on “>Summer’s here… – #491”

  1. Unknown's avatarD on said:

    >The sunflowers are beautiful.I enjoyed me visit here today.Nice pictures and very witty commentary!

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  2. Unknown's avatarKate on said:

    >A beautiful photo of lovely flowers with good information. Thanks for your visit to my blog; I appreciate it. I confess that I was delighted to see your name; it’s been too long since we’ve communicated! Hope all is well with you!!

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