Plants can be either dioecious or monecious.
Individual species which have separate male and female plants, and are either one sex or the other, are called dioecious (dy-EE-shus).
Monecious (moan-EE-shus) refers to plants which have both male and female flowers (stamins and pistels) on the same plant.
The copyright of the article What is Dioecious? in Desert Gardens is owned by Robert Dailey. Permission to republish What is Dioecious? in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
