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Flowers

 15-Dioecious plant

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Other plants have imperfect flowers with staminate (male) and carpellate (female) flowers found on different plants.

The plants (NOT flowers) are called dioecious (from the Greek "di-oikos" = " two homes").
On this photo, two branches from different individuals of a deciduous holly, Ilex decidua, have been put side by side; you can see male flowers on the left branch and female flowers on the right branch.

Photo by K. R. Robertson and D. L. Nickrent from plants cultivated on the campus of the University of Illinois.
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