Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
The pod cover peels back when ripe, exposing the sepals (the little pods hanging-down when open) and releasing the pollen.


Part of the learning process is to know the names of your plant parts.
Seed Formation PDF


Both are swollen calyx's with pistils coming out. Quantity of pistils coming out can vary. The differences can be from wind or handling killing the pistil (which will be replaced with one or two or more in it's place) My guess is, the calyx with multiple pistils is an old calyx, and it's getting tired of the (underperforming) pistils not pollinating her. (Plants get frustrated, too, lol)

A calyx is always female. When you find one on a male plant, it's just a calyx (female sexual organ) on a hermaphrodite male. If your calyx opens-up exposing sepals, (nanner pods full of pollen) it's a genetic defect, and is not the norm, even for hermaphrodites. Not impossible, I guess...but I've never seen it or heard of it myself.

Well, by reading that PDF, wouldn't the pollen glands be the Stamens? And the casing be sepals? Whatever, but thought I'd ask.

I know that there is a casing around the pollen glands (Sepals, Stamens whatever) while they grow and it splits open exposing them when they are ready.

I know that there is a casing around the seeds while they grow, (presumably an unfertilized female flower or Calyx as well.) and it splits open revealing the seed. This casing is what I've been calling a Calyx. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I'm still edjumecating myself.:jointsmile:


I tried to catch different angles of the suspect flower, and that's the only one that turned out in any way.

What you might not be understanding (or perhaps not seeing) is that the solid yellowish mass that's growing out of the right side, is in the same casing that contains the pistil.


Perhaps next time I will attempt to excise the casing from the core of the flower when I find a nanner growing out of a bud. :detective1: