The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years

Avocado flowers perform the duty of both female and male flowers. The gene that controls them has been unchanged for 42 million years.

Each avocado flower opens twice over two days: first in its female phase, when it can receive pollen, and later in its male phase, when it releases pollen. — Read the rest

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