Zama is a city situated in main Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, popular for its comprehensive sunflower areas. Every season in summer the blossoms blossom and during this time the yearly Sunflower Event or Himawari Matsuri is structured. From overdue July through August more than 500, 000 sunflowers are shown at various places around Zama.
During the festival, guests can enjoy music and enjoyment, great food and buy town fresh generate. An range of sunflower products, from Sunflower seed products to Sunflower alcohol and sunflower rice are traded at the festival. The vegetation grow pretty high - over 5 feet. A raised foundation is built at the advantage of the area allowing guests to take raised images of the entire sunflower area.
The sunflower, which is native to The united states, were taken to European countries in the Sixteenth millennium, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a comprehensive food preparation component. Sunflower simply foliage is not misused, either, being used for livestock nourish and the " floating " fibrous arises for document development. Sunflowers also has a unusual ability to draw out harmful substances from ground, such as lead, arsenic and uranium. After the Fukushima atomic catastrophe last season, volunteers and campaigners in Asia increased sunflowers to decontaminate the radioactive ground. A similar strategy was installed in reaction to the Chernobyl catastrophe in Russia.
