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These veggies fall into a category of plants known as dioecious, which means the male and female parts of their flowers lie in entirely different plants. In general, female flowers absorb pollen ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...

There are both male and female plants. The female cone is an impressive, wide-domed structure that can be almost half a metre across. Its bright orange-red seeds are eaten by foraging marsupials ...