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INACTIVE BRANCH.
Aug 24, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵 Trees have 3 sexes, male dioecious, female dioecious and monoecious. Councils and planners like to plant dioecious male trees as they don’t seed, drop fruit or flower wildly and most important to councils, messily. This is good for their street cleaning budget but not for us in nature there’s a natural even mix of all 3 tree sexes ensuring that the amount of pollen wafted into the air is regulated. When planted independently of dioecious females the pollen is unchecked by any capture from female flowers resulting in an uptick of pollen in the air and