Question: Which one of the following is a dioecious plant?
Options:
Peach
Pomegranate
Pea
Pointed gourd
✏️Dioecious Plant:
-Dioecious plants refers to plants that have male and female reproductive parts on different plants.
-A dioecious plant is one that has either female or exclusively male reproductive organs in its flowers.
-Because they only have one sex organ, dioecious plants are referred to as imperfect flowers.
✏️Examples:
-papaya, willow, date palm, poplar, etc.
Additional Information
-Plants having both the male and female reproductive parts present are called monoecious plants.
-All gametes, male and female, are produced by monoecious plants. Androecium, which refers to the male portion, is made up of stamens, and gynoecium, which refers to the female portion, is made up of the pistil.
-Some examples of monoecious plants are Maize, Cucumber, Chara, Fig, Melon, and Coconut.
-It's commonly known as a hermaphrodite or bisexual flower when a flower possesses both male and female reproductive organs.
-It's known as unisexual when a flower just has male or female reproductive organs. Both staminate and pistillate flowers can be found on a single plant in a monoecious species.