Do avocados have gender?

Question

just a little arguement that i'm having.

Answer 1

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Avocados have perfect flowers but exhibit dichogamy (the female and male organs do not mature at the same time, making self pollination difficult).

I don't understand why you got some sarcastic answers. Apparently, we need more botany teachers in schools. Gender is not limited to animals. All higher plants have male and female parts, but they may or may not be on the same plant. If a plant produces only male or only female flowers, it is called dioecious. You can google for a list of dioecious species. If a plant produces both male and female flowers, it is called monoecious. A plant that produces bisexual ('perfect') flowers is called hermaphroditic.

An avocado is therefore a dichogamous hermaphrodite.

Willows and poplars are dioecious, and therefore, each plant is either a male or a female. Unlike animals, they do not carry seperate chromosomes based on gender, so you can't compare dioecious plants to animals.

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Hope this resolves your argument :-)

And apparently there are one or two trolls on this thread thumbing down all the answers.

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big help, and about your comment on the other responses. i thought it was a legitimate question. but yeah, there were one or fifteen too many sarcastic answers i didn't care to hear. i'm sure your answer is a big booyah in yo' face to 'em all though, thanx.

Answer 2

no..

Answer 3

Of course they do!

Answer 4

Don't know about Avacados, but Bell peppers do. Three bumps on the bottom are male and over three are female, and of course the female are the sweeter of the two.,

Answer 5

No. The flowers on an avocado tree have both male and female parts. During one part of the day, it will shed pollen and during another part of the day, it will receive pollen.

Answer 6

Yes. The one with the penis is a male.

Answer 7

all plants gave gender
i took a garden class last month sooooo boring

Answer 8

Avocados or avocado trees? Avocados no. Avocado trees, yes.

Answer 9

The avocado itself? No. But the plant has some interesting attributes of a sexual nature:

"Avocados are members of the aromatic laurel family (Lauraceae), and their flowers are unique. They have been misunderstood and misrepresented as being either male or female, when in fact each flower has both a male and a female stage. They have two distinct categories: Type A and Type B.

The Type A flower blossoms on the morning of its first day, functioning as “female,” and after a few hours it closes. On the afternoon of the second day, the flower reopens, functioning as “male.” After a few hours, it closes permanently.

The Type B flower opens the afternoon of the first day, functioning as “female,” then closes, reopening the morning of the second day, functioning as “male” before it closes permanently. "

http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/gard…

Answer 10

yes. you didn't know?

Answer 11

The avocado is unusual in that the timing of the male and female phases differs among cultivars. There are two flowering types, "A" and "B". "A" cultivar flowers open as female on the morning of the first day and close in late morning or early afternoon. Then they open as male in the afternoon of the second day. "B" varieties open as female on the afternoon of the first day, close in late afternoon and reopen in the male the following morning.

"A" cultivars: Hass, Gwen, Lamb Hass, Pinkerton, Reed.
"B" cultivars: Fuerte, Sharwil, Zutano, Bacon, Ettinger, Sir Prize, Walter Hole.[3][4]

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado

Answer 12

haha thats a really good question, but like i do know that flowers and stuff have genders...but does that make avocados have a gender?? so i think that avocados have a gender

Answer 13

If they do plz tell me.

Answer 14

That depends on what you are smoking!!!

Answer 15

they are ovaries right?

Answer 16

Only after about 9 beers.

Answer 17

ahah gender? maybe if you look on the bottom of the avodado you might tell if you see a penis or vagina ahah. i dont think fruit have genatalia and gender. its like saying what gender is a tomato..

Answer 18

All the avacado fruits would be female because they have the seed!

Answer 19

???if they do let me know??

Answer 20

we'll, i'm an avacado, and i have no idea actually

Answer 21

No there not animals there plants

Answer 22

No because it is a fruit!

Answer 23

I don't think so, plants don't have genders, do they? If they don't avocados aren't going to have a gender.

Answer 24

dont think so

Answer 25

Sure, and I'm queen of France. You can tell by the color of the pit-pink-ish tint is a girl, blue-ish tint is a boy.