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Re: Pollinators and Male & Female Flowers

I knew that zucchini had male and female flowers, but I'm not sure how
to tell them apart, and All the cucumber flowers look the same to me. 
How can I tell them apart?
Thanks.
Pat
Zone 7, Maryland


Advocate wrote:
> 
> Martha and all
> 
> No shame in an honest mistake, certainly no shame in the admission of an
> error. Most learning is accomplished by failure (certainly true in my
> case). Thankfully you were not attacked, nor your opinion sullied by a
> little person with too much spare time. That is an ad hominem attack of
> the worst kind.
> 
> That is one thing I dislike most about the net and most listservs. Small
> minds who discover one minor error in an otherwise true and correct
> statement and attack as if there were points to score. Small minds focus
> on small errors it seems.
> 
> Speaking of pollinators. I informed the list about my baby bumble bees
> the other day and researched them. It seems that they are not very
> smart. They spend most of the first half of their lives trying to figure
> out the beneficial pollens for their sustenance. In other words they
> have to learn which plants have beneficial pollen. These guys are pretty
> damned stupid right now as they have decided that male corn pollen is
> edible. I would bet that they are hungry also.
> 
> M. Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Ahem. Well, that's embarassing. I declared that eggplants and
> > peppers have both male and female flowers, as cucumbers do, and
> > somebody very politely pointed out that, well, they don't. :)
> > So bees might well still be Good or even Essential for pollination
> > of these crops (I don't know), but not for the reason I claimed.
> >
> > Resolving to think before she types,
> >
> > Martha
> >
> > M. Wilson
> > mart@best.com
> >
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