Author Topic: Is This Papaya Flower Hermaphrodite?  (Read 563 times)

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Is This Papaya Flower Hermaphrodite?
« on: August 07, 2022, 12:07:23 PM »
I peeled away the upper petals for the photo:




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Re: Is This Papaya Flower Hermaphrodite?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2022, 05:21:34 PM »
A picture of the female plant starting to fruit next to the "hermaphrodite". The male flowers on the male plant have not opened yet, so it looks like the female was pollinated by the hermaphrodite.

The plants are about four or five months old from seed.




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Re: Is This Papaya Flower Hermaphrodite?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2022, 06:01:32 AM »
those are female flowers

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Re: Is This Papaya Flower Hermaphrodite?
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2022, 09:33:35 PM »
those are female flowers

I'm asking about the picture from the first post.

 

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