Male and Female

'After being identified as male for more than 150 years, the Fortingall Yew tree in Perthshire, Scotland, estimated to be 5,000 years old, grew a female branch in 2015, surprising botanists with its capacity to change sexes after so long.' 

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(The Yew was seen as a protector of the soul during the journey to the Otherworld.)

llicium macranthum exposes only its male sexual organs the first time the flower opens. Afterwards, only the female sexual organs are accessiblej

“Gender is so varied in nature — what’s natural is that there is lots of diversity,” says Patrick Featherstone...

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The Schizophyllum commune fungus can have more than 23,000 sexual identities

"Only about 5 per cent of [flowering] plants reproduce in the male and female way that we’ve been taught,” says Featherstone. 

What Linneaus didn’t expect was that some species can be both monoecious, where the plant bears both male and female flowers, and dioecious, where the plant bears either male or female flowers.

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