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 14-Monoecious plant

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Some plants have imperfect flowers with staminate (male) and carpellate (female) flowers on the same plant.

These plants (NOT the flowers) are monoecious (from the Greek "mono-oikos" = "a single house"). This example is river birch (Betula nigra).

Photo by K. R. Robertson at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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