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    [–]Myrkskog 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

    Aye. Monoecious and dioecious.

    "A monoecious plant is one that has male and female flowers on the same plant, or that has flowers on every plant that contain both male and female reproductive components. A dioecious plant has either male or female flowers, not both. For dioecious plants to reproduce, a male plant must be near a female plant so that pollinators can do their work."

    https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/dioecious-monoecious-information.htm

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      [–]Myrkskog 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

      I've been an arborist/tree surgeon/tree climber for 15 years and have worked in some world famous botanic and public gardens in the UK. Most trees have both sex organs, but you get a few that are single sex. If you've ever heard of Ginkgo, a very old tree from China, the females bare fruit that smells fucking revolting, so surprise, surprise, you'll rarely see it planted in cultivation. I tihnk I've only ever seen a female tree planted in a front garden in a house i would occasionally walk past in my home town growing up. Come autumn, there'd be a mess of squashed fruit on the pavement, with the stink of cat shit, vomit, human waste, etc, preceding your arrival.

      I'm sure keen botanists would know why certain angiosperms (woody, flowering plants with seeds born in fruit) exhibit dioecy.

      [–]beermeem 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Yah, you definitely learn about tree sex pretty early in life when you grow up around female ginkgos...