In fact, as the authors of a recent Nutrition Today article noted, mushroomsâ nutrient and culinary characteristics suggest it may be time to re-evaluate food groupings and health benefits in the context of three separate food kingdoms: plants/ botany; animals/zoology and fungi/mycology.
Tate Modern today unveils the latest commission in The Unilever Series, Sunflower Seeds, by the renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The sculptural installation appears at first to be a vast, flat landscape of sunflower seed husks, covering the east end of the Turbine Hall.
Sunflower meaning varies based on cultural and religious roots, but many aspects of sunflower symbolism remain constant in legends and mythology. Explore the botanical name of this annual flower, Helianthus annuus, and you learn that it derives from Greek âheliosâ (meaning sun) and âanthosâ (meaning flower).