2007/10/5, D. Michael McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Of flowers I do not know the gender---no example comes in my mind. What
> > makes
> > a flower a masculine or a feminine ? Should be only their stamen or
> carpel.
>
> Flowers, or by extension sometimes entire plants have gender. Ginkgo
> trees
> come to mind as being either male or female. You generally want to try to
> plant the male trees, because the females bear messy, stinky fruit. Many
> plants have flowers that are either male (only anthers) or female (only a
> pistil) either on the same plant, or on entirely separate
> plants. Pumpkins
> come to mind as having distinctly male or distinctly female flowers.
>
> Here's more than you ever wanted to know:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_sexuality
>
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre
And does the true gender of the flowers, or the plants, have any connection
to the gender of the words which represent these plants ?
--
Heikki
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