SUNFLOWER by GARAGELAND

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Jul 04, 2013

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Description

Although it was commonly accepted that the sunflower was first domesticated in what is now the Southeastern US, roughly 5000 years ago, there is evidence that it was first domesticated in Mexico around 2600 B.C.E. These crops were found in Tabasco, Mexico at the San Andre's dig site. The earliest known examples in the United States of a fully domesticated sunflower have been found in Tennessee, and date to around 2300 BC. Many indigenous American peoples used the sunflower as the symbol of their solar deity, including the Aztecs and the Otomi of Mexico and the Incas in South America. In 1510 early Spanish explorers encountered the sunflower in the Americas and carried its seeds back to Europe. Of the four plants known to have been domesticated in what is now the eastern continental United States and to have become important agricultural commodities, the sunflower is currently the most economically important. During the 18th century, the use of sunflower oil became very popular in Russia, particularly with members of the Russian Orthodox Church, because sunflower oil was one of the few oils that was allowed during Lent, according to some fasting traditions. Among the Zuni people, the fresh or dried root is chewed by the medicine man before sucking venom from a snakebite and applying a poultice to the wound. This compound poultice of the root is applied with much ceremony to rattlesnake bites. Have a nice day.

Comments (14)

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kassad

8:06AM | Thu, 04 July 2013

Great shoot. Nice post FX. B->

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Celart

8:52AM | Thu, 04 July 2013

Great shot, postwork and info

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prutzworks

9:09AM | Thu, 04 July 2013

like the postwork, thanx for info

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Kaartijer

9:38AM | Thu, 04 July 2013

Awesome shot and postwork!

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photosynthesis

10:11AM | Thu, 04 July 2013

I would never have thought of stripping the color from a sunflower, but this works beautifully - it really brings out the essence & elegance of it's structure...

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