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Originally Posted by sbl
No, I know the difference in male and female flowers--these were female and there is still one hand past the one that dropped. Male flowers haven't appeared yet.
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What are you using as the basis that they are not male flowers? The male flowers will often have a vestigial pistil and lack pollen on the anthers, so they can look like female flowers. Additionally, sometimes there are some transitional hands that are between male and female, but functionally neither. They can alternate positions such that there is not a smooth transition between female and male flowers, it can go back and forth sometimes. They could appear very female like but still abscise. Female flowers will not form an abscission layer at the pedicel even if they are malnourished.