flowering avocado (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

flowering avocado

Caption

The flowers of an avocado tree. All avocado trees are hermaphrodites, but at any given time their flowers function either as male by releasing pollen, or as female by receiving pollen.

Credit

Jeffrey Groh

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