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A new, cliff-dwelling species, Hedyotis flynnii, is described from the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. It is distinguished by its conspicuously reticulate leaf venation, reduced leaves, and greenish yellow ...
The ability of plants to flower one year as male and the next as female, or vice versa, is well documented in 'dioecious' plants, however the causes of this ability to change gender have been ...
Because most dioecious plants are wind-pollinated, the closer you can get the males to the females, the better. Ideally you might situate a few males at the back of a large, massed planting.
Climate change, particularly increased aridity, poses a significant threat to plants and the biotic communities they support. Dioecious species may be especially vulnerable to climate change given ...
Then are the dioecious species, in which trees themselves can be male or female: Males produce the pollen, and females receive the pollen. (Some dioecious species, like the striped maple and yew ...
The phosphorus (P) requirement of the dioecious submersed aquatic plant hydrilla [Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle], was studied by culturing plants from vegetative propagules in nutrient solutions ...
Green ephedra is a dioecious species, meaning that an individual produces either male cones or female cones. The male cones form at the nodes of stems, and they sprout microsporangia, which release ...
Again, unless you have a microscope you will be waiting for the unharvested plant to develop berries to be sure whether it is a female or male. So to achieve an all-male asparagus bed more time ...
Instead dioecious male trees produce only pollen. He coined the phrase "botanical sexism", telling The Guardian he had seen evidence of such practices in London, Christchurch, in New Zealand, and ...
Hollies are dioecious. Dioecious plant species produce male and female flowers on separate plants. Only female holly plants produce the red, berry-like fruit.