On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:59:05 +0000, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:

In article , Hussein M.
writes

With the only monoecious plant I have any experience of (ie female
plants with exclusively female flowers and male plants with
exclusively male flowers), the female plant under conditions of stress
may produce a sprinkling of male flowers so the plant has the
potential to turn hermaphrodite.


s/monoecious/dioecious/

monoecious is both sexes on ONE plant (but separate male and female
flowers)

dioecious is one sex on each of TWO plants.

Aha!

Well, guess what I'm getting for Christmas?

1 of Principles of Horticulture
C.R., BSc Adams, et al; @ £15.99 each

About time don't you think?

A rose by any other name ... can confuse.

Funny the way that homo sapiens is habitually treaches it's infants
to think in the manner of finding pidgeon holes for everything when
reality is so incondusive to such regimentation . I'm wondering if it
is a basic requirement for language.

Rspct

Hussein