Re: are pumkins?
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: are pumkins?
- From: Z* B* L* <z*@cornell.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:05:50 -0400 (EDT)
Pumpkins themselves are neither male nor female unless you look at the fact
that the pumpkin arose from a female flower. You see, pumpkin plants are
monoecious which means that male and female flowers grow separately but on
the same plant. Whereas a plant like tomato has both male and female parts
in one flower. Anyways, It order to get a pumpkin you must have a female
flower open that gets pollinated by a male flower. But there are no male
flowers that get pollinated by females, so your friend is mistaken. The
female flowers that are separated from the male flowers give rise to the
pumpkins.
Zach Lippman
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