Undoubtedly, one of the most interesting features of sunflowers is that they constantly follow the sun with admiration during the day. So how can they perform this movement so flawlessly even though they are just a plant?
Yes, tendency to turn towards the light source We can observe it in other plants, but the situation is a little different and obvious in sunflowers.
Let’s see, sunflowers that don’t even have muscles can spend the whole day keep your gaze on the sun How does he achieve it?
Sunflowers turn to the sun more when they are young.
At dawn, especially young sunflowers turn east and prepare for sunrise. During the day, they constantly follow the sun and turn westward. When the day is over, they turn to the east again and wait to greet the sun in the morning. This movement also has a name: “heliotproism”.
Old sunflowers are “Don’t bother me, I’ll sit here, you go and come.” It doesn’t follow the sun much, as if to say, usually facing east waits. We leave the content below where we explain the reason for this for those who are interested:
Let’s get back to our main topic, how do sunflowers do this movement of following the sun and rotating?
Even though sunflowers don’t have muscles, they spin around all day long. The trick to this secret trick lies in its roots. The stems of young sunflowers grow relatively more at night, but this growth only in west direction is happening. So it becomes easier for your head to bend towards the east.
The same situation happens from different sides during the day. of their bodies east side is growing and under the influence of the sun, a swinging movement towards the west occurs. Thus, they can follow the sun throughout the day by constantly growing actively.