From the archive record
The sunflower got its name because its flowers resemble the sun, and they also turn on their stems to follow the sun throughout the day. Sunflower seeds are used as a nutritious snack, for sprouting, for bird seed, to make cooking oil, medicine, and for animal feed. Sunflower oil is also used for biodiesel fuel and the sunflower plant is used to clean toxins from the environment. Source: http://www.squidoo.com/Sunflowers-Native-American-Food This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM.