Do avocados have gender?!


Question: just a little arguement that i'm having.


Answers: just a little arguement that i'm having.

Avocados have perfect flowers but exhibit dichogamy (the female and male organs do not mature at the same time, making self pollination difficult).

I don't understand why you got some sarcastic answers. Apparently, we need more botany teachers in schools. Gender is not limited to animals. All higher plants have male and female parts, but they may or may not be on the same plant. If a plant produces only male or only female flowers, it is called dioecious. You can google for a list of dioecious species. If a plant produces both male and female flowers, it is called monoecious. A plant that produces bisexual ('perfect') flowers is called hermaphroditic.

An avocado is therefore a dichogamous hermaphrodite.

Willows and poplars are dioecious, and therefore, each plant is either a male or a female. Unlike animals, they do not carry seperate chromosomes based on gender, so you can't compare dioecious plants to animals.

Yes. The one with the penis is a male.

dont think so

NO, Their fruits/vegetables !!!!

no..

yes. you didn't know?

???if they do let me know??

Yes, Avocados are male, avocada are female.

Avocados or avocado trees? Avocados no. Avocado trees, yes.

That depends on what you are smoking!!!

Only after about 9 beers.

they are ovaries right?

Don't know about Avacados, but Bell peppers do. Three bumps on the bottom are male and over three are female, and of course the female are the sweeter of the two.,

The avocado is unusual in that the timing of the male and female phases differs among cultivars. There are two flowering types, "A" and "B". "A" cultivar flowers open as female on the morning of the first day and close in late morning or early afternoon. Then they open as male in the afternoon of the second day. "B" varieties open as female on the afternoon of the first day, close in late afternoon and reopen in the male the following morning.

"A" cultivars: Hass, Gwen, Lamb Hass, Pinkerton, Reed.
"B" cultivars: Fuerte, Sharwil, Zutano, Bacon, Ettinger, Sir Prize, Walter Hole.[3][4]

No. The flowers on an avocado tree have both male and female parts. During one part of the day, it will shed pollen and during another part of the day, it will receive pollen.

haha thats a really good question, but like i do know that flowers and stuff have genders...but does that make avocados have a gender?? so i think that avocados have a gender

ahah gender? maybe if you look on the bottom of the avodado you might tell if you see a penis or vagina ahah. i dont think fruit have genatalia and gender. its like saying what gender is a tomato..

Of course they do!

all plants gave gender
i took a garden class last month sooooo boring

No because it is a fruit!

If they do plz tell me.

The avocado itself? No. But the plant has some interesting attributes of a sexual nature:

"Avocados are members of the aromatic laurel family (Lauraceae), and their flowers are unique. They have been misunderstood and misrepresented as being either male or female, when in fact each flower has both a male and a female stage. They have two distinct categories: Type A and Type B.

The Type A flower blossoms on the morning of its first day, functioning as “female,” and after a few hours it closes. On the afternoon of the second day, the flower reopens, functioning as “male.” After a few hours, it closes permanently.

The Type B flower opens the afternoon of the first day, functioning as “female,” then closes, reopening the morning of the second day, functioning as “male” before it closes permanently. "

http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/gard...

No there not animals there plants

All the avacado fruits would be female because they have the seed!

I don't think so, plants don't have genders, do they? If they don't avocados aren't going to have a gender.

we'll, i'm an avacado, and i have no idea actually

Sure, and I'm queen of France. You can tell by the color of the pit-pink-ish tint is a girl, blue-ish tint is a boy.





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