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Old 31-01-2005, 11:05 AM
Nick Maclaren
 
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In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
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| Charles Darwin, in "Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same
| Species" describes the common ash, Fraxinus excelsior, as trioecious.
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| URL:http://pages.britishlibrary.net/char...forms_of_flowe
| rs/flowers00.htm

Yes, but that is only the presence of male, female and hermaphrodite
flowers (and plants). I was reading about some New Zealand plants
with one female and two hermaphrodite flower forms, too. Plants
have never really picked up the idea that you must be entirely one
sex or the other. I was really thinking of sex at the deeper level
of types of gametes.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.