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bell peppers
I have always known you are never too old to learn something new!!!
Here is something new to me & I am as old as dirt.
Flip the bell peppers over to check their gender.
The ones with four bumps are female
and those with three bumps are male.
The female peppers are full of seeds, but sweeter and better
for eating raw and the males are better for cooking.
Albums: sex of bell peppers
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Comment by Mathew Slattery on September 4, 2013 at 8:25pm
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Ya, I have heard a lot about male and female fruits in regards to eggplant but after quite a bit of research and botany classes, I have learnt that variations in fruiting bodies are simply that, variations in gene expression.
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Moderator Comment by Bob Terrell on September 4, 2013 at 3:15pm -
may be, may be
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Comment by Alex Veidel on September 4, 2013 at 3:09pm
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Hmm, it's possible that Matthew may be right on this one. There are plants with male and female flowers (like zucchini), but I think peppers are self pollinating...bubble burster :)
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Moderator Comment by Bob Terrell on September 4, 2013 at 2:31pm -
There are male and female egg plants
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Sorry to burst your bubble but biologically that does not make sense. “If there is any such thing as male and female bell peppers, the designation is culinary, not biological, and if it is a culinary designation, it does not appear to be a widespread one. Fruits (bell peppers are biologically fruits, being the seed bearing part of the plant) have no gender. They are not the plant’s sexual parts, but the vehicles for its offspring, formed only after the plant has been pollinated and fertilized. On most flowering plants, including bell peppers, the flowers that become the fruit have both male and female parts, making them androgynous. All bell peppers, then, are hermaphrodites.”
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Hehe, you know that's right ;)
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Moderator Comment by Bob Terrell on August 27, 2013 at 12:36pm -
Alex to remember the males welll just go stand in front of a mirror and look
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lol
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It's too bad the females don't have three bumps, then I could use the phrase "three-males" to remember which one is which. I guess I'll just have to remember that there are "females" and then there are "three-males". Hopefully that keeps it straight. I know what I'm doing first thing after I get home from work. I'm gonna saunter off to the garden and identify all my peppers :)
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No....way.... I had no idea. Thanks Bob!
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