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Reproduction In Organisms

Question
CBSEENBI12001578

Examine a few flowers of any cucurbit plant and try to identify the staminate and pistillate flowers. Do you know any other plant that bears unisexual flowers?

Solution

Cucurbits are unisexual plants. The staminate or male flowers are bright, yellow coloured. The staminate flowers bear bright, yellow coloured petals bearing stamens. Whereas, the pistillate flowers have pistil. Other examples of unisexual flowers are papaya, cucumber, etc.