A picture can understand whether a watermelon flower is an intersex flower
One article about melons, fruits and vegetables, and one picture to understand whether watermelon flowers are intersex flowers. Let's take a look together!
In order to let flower friends understand whether watermelon is a bisexual flower, the editor specially took a picture of female and male flowers close to each other. Combined with the text, flower friends should be able to remember it more deeply. Let's start with the answer: watermelon is a watermelon flower is a unisexual flower, and it is mono-hermaphrodite, that is, a watermelon plant has both female and male flowers, as shown in the following figure.
Unisexual flowers correspond to hermaphrodite flowers, that is, a flower of angiosperms has both pistil and stamens. This kind of flower is called hermaphrodite flowers. Let's take lily as an example. Friends below can find out the pistil, stamen, and stigma of lily flowers in the following picture.
Since watermelon flowers are unisexual flowers, pollination will inevitably be involved. Watermelons need pollination to improve their fruit setting rate. If they are not pollinated, the watermelon will naturally wither and fall off.
Watermelon pollination is very simple. In nature, pollination is done through insects and other pollinators. If it is a potted plant or greenhouse, it can only be artificially pollinated. When pollination is carried out with flower-to-flower method, gently hold the flower stalk of the female flower to expose the stigma, and then select the male flower that opens on the same day, take off the flower stalk, and turn the petals out to expose the stamens. Gently apply the pollen on the stigma of the female flower at the melon-sitting node, so that the pollen is evenly scattered on the stigma. One male flower can give 2-4 female flowers.
Of course, you can also use a brush, cotton swab, etc. to dip the pollen from the male flower to pollinate the female flower.
The picture shared above can understand the specific content of whether watermelon flowers are intersex flowers for everyone's reference and operation.