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A list of three flowering plants is given below. Which ones out of them are (i) monoecious and (ii) bearing pistillate flowers:

List – Datepalm, Cucurbits and Pea.


Monoecious flowers are the ones with both male and female reproductive organs in the same flower.


Pistillate flowers are the flowers bearing only pistils.


i) Monoecious – Cucurbits


ii) Bearing pistillate flowers – date palm


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