#dioecious plants

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

White fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)

[scriptflorist]

eggplant-squire replied to your post “Hi! I'm writing a story where a witch casts a curse using flowers and...”

It's not flower language, but maybe writer could use the separate male flowers and female flowers of a monoecious/dioecious plant if that would work symbolically for male-female counterparts in a spell??

That is an excellent addition! I’d say dioecious plants might be the better choice in the long run, because they are easier to tell apart especially for an untrained eye. For example of the English holly, only females can carry berries, and only male kiwis have flowers with pollen. Furthermore, it always requires both male and females plants to produce fruit in case of dioecious plants.

Dioecious plants always come in separate “genders”, as in one per plant, (we’re not gonna argue whether or not plants truly need them, but it is true that the terms male and female are used to distinguish dioecious plants), whereas monoecious plants come as both in one on the same plant.

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