All plants known to science are divided into three groups - monoecious, dioecious, and multicompared. In the former, heterosexual inflorescences are on one individual, in the latter, on different ones. Moreover, the flowers themselves can be either bisexual - with pestles and stamens, or dioecious, which have either a pestle or stamen. Multi-home plants provide for the presence on one individual of two varieties of inflorescences. The so-called polygamy is observed in horse chestnut, ash, grapes, and forget-me-nots. But this is not about them now. This article describes which monoecious plants and provides a brief description of their brightest representatives.
Monoecious plants: characteristic
Many scientists believe that same-sex flowers formed from bisexual, and this happened due to evolutionary processes. Speaking about monoecious plants, it is imperative to emphasize that they are characterized by the presence on one instance of pistillate or stamen inflorescences. Representatives of both sexes are "in the same house" - hence the name of these green spaces.
Plants of this kind are most often wind-pollinated. There are times when insects carry pollen - this process is called entomophilia. Autogamy is not inherent in plants when pollination occurs in a bowl of one flower. Most often, pollen falls here into the fold from other inflorescences located on the same plant. And this directly affects the properties of the seeds.
Monoecious plants are found at every step. Examples of such green spaces are: watermelon, corn, pumpkin, walnut, hazel, alder, beech, birch and oak. Also known are those species that in extreme conditions can be converted from dioecious into monoecious - these include, for example, hemp.
Walnut
One of the brightest representatives of monoecious plants. It is rich in vitamins, alkaloids, carotene, essential oils, iron salts and other beneficial substances. Walnut improves memory, helps get rid of constipation, is indispensable for diseases of the heart and diabetes, and prevents the appearance of breast and prostate cancer.
It begins to bloom in May. Healthy fruits of the tree can be enjoyed in September. Walnut inflorescences are collected in small groups - from two to five pieces. Due to the fact that male and female flowers do not ripen at the same time, cross-pollination occurs between them. Walnut fruits can be tied without pollination, but then their properties will be of very low quality.
Oak
Monoecious plants are also trees of the beech family. Oak is a typical representative of them. It has long been considered the personification of wisdom, longevity, beauty and strength. Similar qualities are possessed by bark, leaves, acorns of a plant. They are very strong, endure winter frosts and summer heat, poor climatic conditions and sudden changes in weather. The height of the oak is not more than 30 meters, although real giants are often found in nature. Few people know that the oak begins to bear fruit only after thirty years from the moment of planting.
On the oak tree there are both female and male flowers, therefore these trees are monoecious plants. Stamen individuals are usually collected in small inflorescences, have a greenish color. Their top is decorated with a raspberry edging. There are fewer male flowers - they are located “in one bunch” of three pieces and have a pleasant pale pink color. A lot is known about the healing properties of oak. Everything is used for the production of healing preparations - bark, acorns, leaves, which have wound healing, astringent, anti-inflammatory properties. Oaks grow well in all climatic conditions: both in wet marshes (Virginian species) and in dry areas.
Birch tree
Monoecious plants include not only walnuts and oak, but also birch. Wood components are often used in folk medicine. For example, tincture from the kidneys is actively used by healers to eliminate various diseases. A birch mushroom well restores strength. It effectively neutralizes headaches and increases appetite. And everyone’s favorite birch sap perfectly cleanses the body, fights against the formation and growth of internal tumors.
Birch can reach a height of up to twenty-five meters. It is slightly inferior to the beech family in the number of genera and species. And it’s significant. There are only 150 varieties of the birch "clan", in beech trees this figure is much larger - 800 species. Almost all representatives of the birch family are resistant to frost, only Japanese, Chinese and Himalayan individuals do not belong to them.
Hazel
Walnuts, oak, and birch are far from all green spaces that are part of a group called monoecious plants. Examples can be infinite. Hazel also belongs to this category - a long-lived shrub, which on average can delight mankind with tasty and healthy nuts for about eighty years.
Male flowers (stamens) are located in the catkins of the plant, but female flowers (pistillate) are in flower buds. Hazel shrubs are universal monoecious plants. Fruits, bark, leaves and even roots - all this is actively used in medicine. Varicose veins, constipation, lack of milk in nursing women, rickets, anemia, hypertension - decoctions, tinctures, ointments, and other products made from hazel components can easily cope with all these problems.
