Queer Tomatoes: Exploring Plant Sexuality

There is something queer concerning tomatoes! Back in the 1970s, researchers in Australia were perplexed by the Dungowan Bush Tomato plant because of its capacity to vary between male, female or neither throughout its life– instead of having a static expression of its sex like a lot of various other tomatoes. The plant was later on named Solanum plastisexum in 2019, converted to plastic or malleable sex, and specified as a distinctive species with sex-related conditions outside of the regular binary. We check into the surprising queerness of the simple fruit.

Solanum Plastisexum: Malleable Sex

Elderly editor Mel Woods is an English-speaking Vancouver-based author, editor and sound producer and a former associate editor with HuffPost Canada. A happy prairie queer and cattle ranch clothing specialist, their work has actually additionally appeared in Vice, Slate, the Tyee, the CBC, the Globe and Mail and the Walrus.

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Cosexual Nature of Tomatoes

Mirren isn’t specifically ideal about the terms. Tomatoes are cosexual, which suggests that a tomato plant has both pistils and endurances within the exact same blossom. It’s a common quality of blooming plants that permits the capacity to self-pollinate.