Sexual Morphology
Many plants have evolved complex sexual reproductive systems, which is expressed in different combinations of their reproductive organs. Some species have separate male and female parts, and some have separate male and female flowers on the same plant, but the majority of plants have both male and female parts in the same flower. Some plants change their morphological expression depending on a number of factors like age, time of day, or because of environmental conditions. Plant sexual morphology also varies within different populations of some species.
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