classify these flower papaya, cucumber, ladys finger, rajamalli by what charaties were you able to make such a classification
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Explanation:Why Some Papaya Plants Fail to Fruit
C. L. Chia and Richard M. Manshardt, Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
Papaya plants in home gardens sometimes fail to fruit.
The plant may begin to develop fruits, but the fruits
drop from the plant when they are about golf-ball size.
This is not because the plant is unhealthy or under growth
stress. It is a natural abortion of a female flower that had
not been pollinated and therefore failed to develop into
a fruit.
Papaya plants occur in one of three sexual forms:
male, female, or hermaphrodite. These forms are expressed in the plant’s flower.
Male flowers have no ovary and do not produce a
fruit. They contain stamens bearing pollen that can polThe three types of papaya flower
1 inch
Female
conical bud; petals
free; large ovary with
prominent stigma;
no stamens;
does not form fruit
unless pollinated
Hermaphrodite
cylindrical bud; petals
fused at base; contains both ovary and
stamens; self-fertile
Male
slender, spoonshaped bud; petals
fused at base;
contains anthers but
no ovary; cannot
develop into fruit
linate a papaya flower with an ovary, causing it to produce a fruit. Male papaya plants are somewhat rare in
Hawaii, since the “solo” types generally grown here do
not produce male plants. Male flowers are conspicuously
different from those of the other types because they are
borne in large numbers on a branched, drooping flower
stalk (peduncle).
Female papaya flowers have an ovary and are borne
on the stem of the plant, where the leaf is attached (that
is, in the axil of the leaf petiole). Female flowers are
bulbous at the base and, before they open, pointed at the
tip. The ovary of the female flower must receive pollen
from another plant (either a male or hermaphrodite type)
before it can be fertilized and produce a fruit containing
viable seeds. The pollen is carried in the wind or on an
insect. If there is no pollen in the vacinity, the small,
developing fruit aborts and falls from the plant. Commercial growers remove female plantsfrom their fields
as soon as the first flowers appear and the sex of the
plants can be determined.
Hermaphrodite flowers have both an ovary and stamens bearing pollen. They can pollinate themselves and
do not require the presence nearby of another papaya
plant. They are borne in the leaf axils, like the female
papaya flowers.
The hermaphrodite plant is the preferred type of pa