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 Symbolism. 1  No flower can lift spirits quite like sunflowers can. 2  Sunflowers originated in the Americas in 1000B.C., where for centuries they were cultivated as a valuable food source. 3  Much of the meaning of sunflowers stems from its namesake, the sun itself.