• every extant individual of the cycad Encephalartos woodii (pictured) is male?
• plant sexuality is most diverse among angiosperms?
• Richard Polwhele's polemic poem The Unsex'd Females deplored the female pastime of amateur botany due to the impropriety of learning about the reproduction of plants?

Facts on topics related to Plant sexuality

Flowering plant

• Didiereaceae is a family of cactus-like flowering plants that make up the spiny thickets of Madagascar?
• Blumea balsamifera is a flowering plant which belongs to the Asteraceae family and is used in the Philippines as a diuretic and treatment for the common cold?
• Genlisea margaretae, a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa, has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome?
• the discovery of Archaeamphora longicervia, the first known carnivorous plant, suggests that flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
• the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica, where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils, is unique among all known flowering plants?
• the largest known ovules produced by any non-flowering seed-plant came from the Medullosales (fossilized leaves pictured), an order of extinct seed ferns?
• the name of the flowering plant genus Tetracarpaea refers to its four conspicuous and separate carpels?

Flower

• Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?
• Baby blue eyes is a common Californian wild flower - and one variety of it is white?
• double flowers were first documented as a floral abnormality in ancient Greece and are found in many common flower varieties including impatiens (example pictured), carnations, camellias and roses?
• Creobroter (pictured) is a praying mantis that uses ant mimicry as a juvenile and flower mimicry as an adult?
• a flower robot mimics the appearance of a common flower and contains simple sensing and home appliance functionalities, thus making it a service robot?
• although flowers of the deciduous tree Tilia tomentosa (pictured) are pollinated by honeybees, the nectar is somewhat toxic to bumblebees?
• one variety of baby blue eyes, a common California wild flower, is white?
• the origins of Pak Khlong Talat, the primary flower market in Bangkok, Thailand, date to the 1700s?

Fruit

• Washingtonia is a genus of palm and produces a fruit, eaten by Native American people as a minor food source and by birds?
• the fruit of Australian rainforest plant the long-leaved bitterbark (pictured) open explosively, throwing out parts as far as four metres away?
• the fruit of the Blush Condoo are eaten by the Wompoo Fruit Dove and the Topknot Pigeon?
• the fungal plant pathogen Taphrina padi turns the fruits of infected Bird Cherry trees into distinctive, elongated, tongue-like structures?
• the Gunai indigenous people of Gippsland practiced controlled burning to induce the edible kangaroo apple to grow and bear fruit?
• the Wrinkle-faced Bat is able to bite 20% harder than other bats of a similar size allowing it to eat a wider range of fruits?

Seed

• seeds of redtop (Agrostis gigantea, pictured) are long-lived and display a high germination rate even after years of storage in an uncontrolled environment?
• giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet?
• many plants avoid seed predation through a process called mass seeding, whereby so many seeds are produced at once that it is impossible for predators to eat all of them?
• the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?
• the Central American palm, Schippia concolor, exhibits the unusual germination strategy of transferring all resources from the seed to the seedling before any shoot growth occurs?
• the main threat to Pisonia brunoniana (pictured) in New Zealand is cutting by people trying to prevent small songbirds from getting trapped by its very sticky seeds?

Pollination

• although flowers of the deciduous tree Tilia tomentosa (pictured) are pollinated by honeybees, the nectar is somewhat toxic to bumblebees?
• the tree Erythrina velutina (inflorescence pictured) can make mice and rats sleepy and is the only Erythrina species pollinated by a lizard, the Noronha skink?

Plant

• Albrecht Dürer's Great Piece of Turf (pictured) shows plants such as cocksfoot, creeping bent and hound's-tongue?
• Amherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease was an "indefatigable pedestrian" and mountaineer who studied plants in the White Mountains?
• canvaswork designs of plants called slips appliquéd on silk or velvet (pictured) were often based on woodcuts from herbals?
• conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?
• Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær made quantitative studies of plants in literature?
• collard greens is both a plant and a recipe?
• plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants?
• many plants avoid seed predation through a process called mass seeding, whereby so many seeds are produced at once that it is impossible for predators to eat all of them?
• most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana?
• some plants have tentacles, but octopuses have none (they have arms)?

Pollen

• the specific name of the small shrub Adenanthos cacomorphus, meaning 'ugly form', relates to its "misshapen" pollen grains?