Ancient British tree doing a sex change!

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ancient-british-tree-sex-change.html

The Vatican will be up in arms about this one for sure, not to mention the bible belters🙂

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ancient-british-tree-sex-change.html

The Vatican will be up in arms about this one for sure, not to mention the bible belters🙂

Originally posted by radioactive69
FMF

Oh......I mean going from female, back to male then back to female. Yes I read that. No personal insults intended.

Originally posted by sonhouse
What I wonder is what does that buy you, what kind of advantage does it give a tree to do that? It is said the tree was healthy.

Originally posted by sonhouse
What I wonder is what does that buy you, what kind of advantage does it give a tree to do that? It is said the tree was healthy.

Not that uncommon for a plant to change sex. I have an Euphorbia bupleurifolia that has changed sex from male to female. I even harvested seeds from it after pollinating it with a male plant.

Originally posted by Aiko
Not that uncommon for a plant to change sex. I have an Euphorbia bupleurifolia that has changed sex from male to female. I even harvested seeds from it after pollinating it with a male plant.

Originally posted by radioactive69
FMF

Oh......I mean going from female, back to male then back to female. Yes I read that. No personal insults intended.

Originally posted by Aiko
I have an Euphorbia bupleurifolia that has changed sex from male to female.
I even harvested seeds from it after pollinating it with a male plant.

Originally posted by Aiko
Not that uncommon for a plant to change sex. I have an Euphorbia bupleurifolia that has changed sex from male to female. I even harvested seeds from it after pollinating it with a male plant.

Originally posted by radioactive69
So what you are saying is that you pollinated it yourself. Dude, I've heard of tree huggers but that's going one step beyond. I hope you two are very happy together.