Bell Peppers Have Gender?

Should have Googled first. The answer is no.

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Thanks for watching. . .

This cracked me up. By botanical definition, a bell pepper is an ovary. All true fruits are ovaries. Thus, all fruits are female.

The male parts of a flower produce pollen--they're the little yellowish anthers perched atop the filaments. Usually, a pollinating insect (bee, wasp) or the wind/air helps the pollen get to the stigma....which fertilizes the ovary. Plant sex.

Elementary school science, people. Didn't y'all ever cut a flower in half and use a magnifying glass to look at the parts? My rural LA public school education covered this.

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Didn't remember biology class did you?

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No, that class was a looonnngg time ago for me.

So Bell Peppers are trannys? Now I'm confused.

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Some plants are specifically male or female. Some are both. Damned if I can tell which is which.

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In flowering plants, it's fairly easy to determine whether you're looking at a male flower, a female flower, or one with both male and female parts.

Look at the base of, say, a zucchini flower. An all male flower has no ovary structure: the base of the flower is small & looks like a skinny stem. It does have obvious yellow pollen structures. A female flower has an elongated, swollen base--this is the ovary that becomes a zucchini fruit.

Some plants' flowers have both structures in one flower, yet still require cross pollination with another individual of the same species. Olives are like this--some of the flowers are single-sex, some are perfect, but productivity will increase if the tree receives pollen from another tree.

Corn is an especially interesting example: every single kernel on an ear is a fertilized ovum. Each ear's tassels shed pollen, and the wind spreads it around. Something like 97% of the pollen fertilizing any given ear comes from another plant. In fact, it's hard to get really productive, full ears of corn in a hobby/backyard patch without planting enough plants. That's why you always see corn planted in patches--you can't grow just two or three corn plants and get quality ears.

This is where I remind y'all that LSU is a land-grant institution with an excellent school of plant, environmental & soil science, a department of plant pathology & crop physiology as well as a wonderful herbarium (plant museum & research facility): LINK /

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the best source of info for Northern gardeners is the U. Michigan website

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Good to know, thanks.

The green ones are least nutritious and are harder to digest

I'm not sure, do green bell peppers have the most fiber?

I didn't think they had much fiber, but I was confused by the post. Thanks for clarifying

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RED PEPPERS
These are more mature than green, orange or yellow bell peppers. They are rich in carotenoid phytonutrients and contain almost eleven times more beta-carotene than green bell peppers as well as one and a half times more vitamin C

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