Is Pumpkin Wormwood a hermaphrodite?

[wefoij]

Klei has been extremely consistent in making sure 100% of wormwood's flowers are male in all of his skins. If there's a flower on wormwood, it has a stamen (aka plant p****).

So yeah, no doubt Wormwood is male. After all the devs went out of their way to ensure this little detail is consistent.

BUT, pumpkins produce both male and female flowers and they pollinate themselves if necessary.

So my question is, does Pumpkin wormwood bloom female flowers too?

On one hand the answer is yes because he's a pumpkin and pumpkins produce both male and female flowers, never just one, so there's no reason to think why wormwood doesn't produce female flowers because he's a pumpkin and pumpkins bloom both male and female flowers, never just one. And I bet you can turn him into a delicious pumpkin pie as well.

On the other hand... I can't think of a reason why magically bringing a pumpkin to life would destroy its signature reproductive trait and kill its ability to reproduce without a partner.

But I could be wrong so I made this topic. Is Pumpkin Wormwood a hermaphrodite? Or is he incapable of blooming female flowers on his head despite being a pumpkin?

[Wardin25]

i think you're looking too deep into cosmetics

[ArubaroBeefalo]

I miss wormwood boner :_

[Owlrust]

 

[YouKnowWho]

plants have sexes????????

[ArubaroBeefalo]

1 minute ago, YouKnowWho said:

plants have sexes????????

ofc

kinda deeper than the school book but this must sound you

[Dollmaker]

I didnt even knew plants had sexes.

You learn something new every day. 

[ArubaroBeefalo]

4 minutes ago, Dollmaker said:

I didnt even knew plants had sexes.

You learn something new every day. 

they even communicate and share information and nutrients to the weak ones. for that wood companies are destroying the planet, they chop the elder trees because of the quality of the wood but elder trees are the guardians of the forest, they help the little trees to grow if needed keeping the forest healthy, also they are the nodes of the fungi network that connects the forest, so chopping them breakes the network making even more difficult to share the nutrients and information needed to survive but money rules the world i guess

some kind of plants release hormones to alert other plants when they are being atacked so the other plants can prepare their defense

there is plants that reproduce via a male and a female, other that have both sex, there is plants that just cut themselfs to grow a new clone and other plants that mix everythign

[Maxposting]

local forumite discovers plants have sexes

[Just-guy]

First of all, the stamen is a male organ, it produces pollen which goes to the pistil of female flowers through pollinization.

Seondly, when Wormwood is fully bloomed he produces pollen so he is male.

Finally, why are we making threads about the gender of a videogame character?, let alone a magic living plant one.

[ArubaroBeefalo]

Just now, Just-guy said:

Seondly, when Wormwood is fully bloomed he produces pollen so he is male

can be both, releasen polen doesnt mean that the plant is just male

[Maxposting]

The issue with wormwood's design, is that he has a pistil (larger sized than a stamen), which means his flowers are female, yet, he produces pollen, therefore, yes, he is a hermaphodic plant.

Issue solved, go home.

[wefoij]

3 minutes ago, Just-guy said:

First of all, the stamen is a male organ, it produces pollen which goes to the pistil of female flowers through pollinization.

Seondly, when Wormwood is fully bloomed he produces pollen so he is male.

Finally, why are we making threads about the gender of a videogame character?, let alone a magic living plant one.

Have you read the first post? I've said the devs went out of their way to ensure all wormwood flowers had stamens so he is definitely male.

But the issue here is that pumpkins produce both flowers. So just because it bloomed a male flower doesn't mean it can't bloom a female flower.

Finally, you and I both don't have anything better to do with our lives right now other than talking about the gender of magic living plants.

[Just-guy]

Well my mistake.

The thing pretty much every gender-related thread ends up locked.

[ArubaroBeefalo]

3 minutes ago, __IvoCZE__ said:

The issue with wormwood's design, is that he has a pistil (larger sized than a stamen), which means his flowers are female, yet, he produces pollen, therefore, yes, he is a hermaphodic plant.

i think with this comment we can finish this topic

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stamen, one of the four basic parts of a flower. The stamen (microsporophyll), is often called the flower's male reproductive organ. It is typically located between the central pistil and the surrounding petals. A stamen consists of a slender stalk (the filament) tipped by a usually bilobed sac (the anther) in which microspores develop as pollen grains. The number of stamens is a factor in classifying plant families, e.g., there are 5 (or multiples of 5) in the rose family and 10 in the pulse family. In most flowers the stamens are constructed so as to promote cross-pollination and to avoid self-pollination; e.g., they may be longer than the pistil or may be so placed in relation to the pistil (as in the mountain laurel and the lady's-slipper) as to prevent the pollinating insect from transferring the pollen of a flower to its own pistil. There may be differing maturation times for the stigma of the pistil and for the anther. In some plants there are some flowers (staminate) that bear stamens and no pistil and others (pistillate) that have a pistil and no stamens; these flowers may be borne on the same or on separate plants of the same species. In some highly developed flowers, especially double ones, and in some horticultural varieties (e.g., the geranium) the stamen may be modified into a sterile petallike organ.

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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[TheMelonNinja]

I don't know, but I hope he's having fun either way. More power to him.

[Mike23Ua]

Man the really weird topics people create in between content updates 

Wormwood is Wormwood.. simple as that.

[TemporarySolutn]

Are you that same person who got banned twice for making shitty threads to stir up drama?

[ArubaroBeefalo]

10 minutes ago, Just-guy said:

Finally, why are we making threads about the gender of a videogame character?, let alone a magic living plant one.

well, this topic was more productive than all of the trash meme topics or doing inaccurate and biased tier lists or asking klei to waste time and money on releasing unbalance and old content xD

[wefoij]

14 minutes ago, ArubaroBeefalo said:

i think with this comment we can finish this topic

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stamen, one of the four basic parts of a flower. The stamen (microsporophyll), is often called the flower's male reproductive organ. It is typically located between the central pistil and the surrounding petals. A stamen consists of a slender stalk (the filament) tipped by a usually bilobed sac (the anther) in which microspores develop as pollen grains. The number of stamens is a factor in classifying plant families, e.g., there are 5 (or multiples of 5) in the rose family and 10 in the pulse family. In most flowers the stamens are constructed so as to promote cross-pollination and to avoid self-pollination; e.g., they may be longer than the pistil or may be so placed in relation to the pistil (as in the mountain laurel and the lady's-slipper) as to prevent the pollinating insect from transferring the pollen of a flower to its own pistil. There may be differing maturation times for the stigma of the pistil and for the anther. In some plants there are some flowers (staminate) that bear stamens and no pistil and others (pistillate) that have a pistil and no stamens; these flowers may be borne on the same or on separate plants of the same species. In some highly developed flowers, especially double ones, and in some horticultural varieties (e.g., the geranium) the stamen may be modified into a sterile petallike organ.

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

See more Encyclopedia articles on: Botany: General

 

 

 

 

Could you explain it a bit better?

I'm looking at fully bloomed pumpkin wormwood right now and pictures of male/female pumpkin flowers and he definitely has the male one.

So how does that comment finish this topic?

[1bubbainpa]

lmao this is just another flavor of WX-78 gender.

But yeah, I’m no botanist so idk what gender pumpkin wormwood is. I’m presuming he’s suppose to be male due to other quotes from other survivors or just no gender.

[TemporarySolutn]

plants are not hermaphrodites, and wormwood is classified under MALE in the code

So assuming you asked a genuine question, there is your answer. No he is not a hermaphrodite he is male

[wefoij]

3 minutes ago, 1bubbainpa said:

lmao this is just another flavor of WX-78 gender.

What? WX-78 has no genitilia. He is by definition genderless, and I say he because its literally 33% easier to type he than she.

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Ok so roses are 100% hermaphrodites. So Roseate Wormwood is 100% hermaphrodite.

Pumpkins are monoecious meaning one plant produces both male and female flowers.

Dioecious means one plant only produces one gender of plant.

So is pumpkin wormwood Monoecious as in he can bloom female flowers too?

Or is he Dioecious for some reason?

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OK SO THE QUESTION COMES DOWN TO

When the monoecious pumpkin vine encircled the Yellow Gem that fell from the moon and then turned into Wormwood, did the moon gem defy pumpkin anatomy and genetics to produce the first ever strain of dioecious pumpkins?

I think the answer is no therefore Pumpkin Wormwood is a hermaphrodite.

4 minutes ago, TemporarySolutn said:

plants are not hermaphrodites, and wormwood is classified under MALE in the code

So assuming you asked a genuine question, there is your answer. No he is not a hermaphrodite he is male

Yes they are.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/hermaphroditic-plant-information.htm

[TemporarySolutn]

1 minute ago, wefoij said:

Yes they are.

shitty research result on my end but Wormwood is still not a hermaphrodite regardless of what plant the skin shows, Wormwood is male and is treated as such