sexing Jojoba plants.
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:54 am
An interesting plant in the desert that grows readily around here is the Jojoba bush. It's called Simmondsia chinensis (its a misspelling some how it got called chinensis (which means from China) while it's a new world plant. As a dioecious plant it has male and female flowers on separate plants. ( a classic example of this is the American Holly tree, which has female members with the red berries and males which have no berries at all). These were in bloom around BCC on around March first.
Male plant. The flowers emit pollen and look like little round balls.
Female plant. These have the berries or in this particular plant's case the hard nut-like seeds, which can be used to make coffee, where the common name coffee bush comes from.
Hope at least someone else enjoys this and learned something new
Male plant. The flowers emit pollen and look like little round balls. Female plant. These have the berries or in this particular plant's case the hard nut-like seeds, which can be used to make coffee, where the common name coffee bush comes from. Hope at least someone else enjoys this and learned something new