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Create a New Collection Collection Name. Collection Description Optional. For your reference. Cancel Create Collection. History of the Amazing Sunflower. Close-up of a single blooming sunflower in a field of sunflowers The story of sunflower Helianthus Annuus is indeed amazing.
The wild sunflower is native to North America but commercialization of the plant took place in Russia. It was only recently that the sunflower plant returned to North America to become a cultivated crop. American Indian Uses. Sunflower was a common crop among American Indian tribes throughout North America. Some archaeologists suggest that sunflower may have been domesticated before corn.
Sunflower was used in many ways throughout the various American Indian tribes. Seed was ground or pounded into flour for cakes, mush or bread.
Some tribes mixed the meal with other vegetables such as beans, squash, and corn. The seed was also cracked and eaten for a snack. There are references of squeezing the oil from the seed and using the oil in making bread. Non-food uses include purple dye for textiles, body painting and other decorations. Parts of the plant were used medicinally ranging from snakebite to other body ointments.
The oil of the seed was used on the skin and hair. The dried stalk was used as a building material. The plant and the seeds were widely used in ceremonies. European Developments. Cloth bag and small packages of sunflower from early century time period This exotic North American plant was taken to Europe by Spanish explorers some time around The plant became widespread throughout present-day Western Europe mainly as an ornamental, but some medicinal uses were developed. The new crop spread rapidly throughout the country.
At first, eating sunflower seeds was popular only in rural areas. However, with the advent of railway communication and labor migrants, the habit of popping Semechki appeared in cities, too. Before the revolution, popping Semechki in public places was considered inappropriate. Then there was a general marginalization of the population and Semechki hit the streets of cities.
Mindless popping of Semechki by people, husks on the carpets of the houses represented a revolutionary chaos. During the formation of the Soviet state, popping Semechki was also considered a bad habit. Then it was decided to take peasants back to collective farms, and to clear the cities of husks and people who at any opportunity took out Semechki and threw husks on the streets.
At the time of perestroika, in the cities there were elderly ladies who sold Semechki putting them into rolled-up bags made from newspapers. At that time, Semechki became a social marker and a communication tool. Now you can find a wide variety of Semechki, produced by different companies.
However, until now, popping Semechki on the street, and spitting out the husk under your feet, is considered inappropriate.
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