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female flower parts, the norm for most blooms. Others are dioecious (pronunciation: Die’-shus): There are male flowers, with stems only, other flowers have only the pistil, the female organ.

Maples with dioecious flowers can be pollinated by March winds that carry pollen from the male flower on one tree to the female flower on another. Polygamous flowers are pollinated by bees that visit the flowers and carry pollen on their hairy bodies from the male to the female flower parts. The bees are after pollen for maples have no nectar. Flowers of the red maple signal spring for me. They appear long before the leaves.

The sugar maple has yellow flowers that come into bloom at the same time leaves

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