The vast majority of plants are both male and female at the same time, like Easter lilies. Fewer than one in 10 plant species have separate male and female plants, like holly. But in some rare species ...

Volunteer seedlings from female plants are inferior to the male plant. Volunteers compete for nutrients and should be removed. One way to guarantee an all-male asparagus bed from the start is to ...

So male asparagus plants are preferred over female asparagus plants. You pay a premium price for all-male asparagus crowns or roots. We call plants that have male and female forms “dioecious.” ...

New research has revealed that the same amount of female and male seeds of the coco de mer trees are produced naturally and that both female and male trees exist in equal proportions in early life ...