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Growing and Curing Gourds in the Home Garden, HYG-1630-96
... male and female flowers. Male flowers serve as the pollinator and female flowers bear fruit. The female flower can be distinguished by the presence of the immature fruit at its base. Several male flowers are produced before any female flowers, and it is these male flowers ...
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Kiwifruit and Hardy Kiwi, HYG-1426-93
... that male and female flowers are found on different plants. Thus, one male plant is needed for each eight female plants for pollination. Male plants do not produce fruit. Fruit range from round to oblong in shape and from smooth-skinned to hairy. Flesh color may be green, orange, or yellow. 'Hayward' is a female ...
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Slicing Cucumbers, Commercial Vegetable Production Guides, North Willamette Research and Extension Center
... and pest control, see the file Pickling Cucumbers. Many excellent cucumbers are available. Flowers may be monoecious (separate male and female flowers on the same plant) and gynoecious (plants with only female flowers) and predominantly female ... seed package to provide a percentage of plants with male flowers for pollination. Parthenocarpic and PF types are most commonly used for greenhouse ...
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Stinking Flowers
... male) flowers (consisting essentially of stamens) are packed around the spadix, just above the female flowers. The conspicuous upper part of the spadix is sterile (flowerless) and emits the stench. Since the male and female flowers ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Amaranth, Wild - Herb Profile and Information
... and more or less oval leaves with long stalks. The numerous green flowers are clustered in the angles between leaf and stem and are unisexual, without petals, both male and female flowers occurring on the same plant. The female ...
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Gibberellic Acid for Fruit Set and Seed Germination
... is not sustained and treatment may have to be repeated. Formation of male flowers is generally promoted by concentrations of 10 to 200 ppm., female flowers by concentrations of 200 to 300 ppm. Concentrations of more than 600 ppm markedly suppresses initiation of both male and female flowers ...
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Fruiting Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants
... self-fertile and the rest are female so there are no unproductive male plants. Papayas perform better on fertile soil and do not tolerate flooding. The leaves are frost sensitive and the trunk ... to ensure that male and female flowers are present. Fruits from female plants are usually short and round with a large seed cavity, while bisexual plants bear elongated fruits with thicker flesh and a smaller ...
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The Gardener's Network A to Z's of Home Gardening : Pollen and Pollination
... the male pollen to the female flower for proper pollination. This is where the impact of a declining bee population has seriously been felt in many areas. Identification of Male and Female Flowers: Assuming all has gone well, your plant will begin to form flowers. In most plants, the male flowers will come out first. (Doesn't ...
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Summer (June) California Redwoods and Waterfalls: The Berry Creek Falls Loop in the Forest of Big Basin State Park
... and basal rosette). California wild lilac, Ceanothus Thyrsiflorus (blue). Thimbleberry (white). California toothwort, Dentaria californica (mauve). Red Clintonia. Tan oak (male and female flowers on ... male flower). Inside-out flower (white). ["unique"] Small-leaved montia, Montia parvifolia (white, 5 petals, small alternate leaves and basal rosette). Elks Clover a.k.a. Spikenard (white flowers ...
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LewHisShrubs&Flowers
... Boxelders come in male and female varieties, the females harboring the Boxelder bugs and ending up at maturity rather contorted. The Bergeson’s tree, on the other hand, is a male with a smooth ... lengths as the Bergesons, Butlers, and Barkers did and all the other settlers like them, to nurture a feeling of home with flowers and shrubs and trees is both impressive and inspiring. As Helen Buxton ...
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