If you're anything like me, you're not a fan of plants having sex. Especially those cherry trees. KN-95 masks are a great invention.

But do plants have gender. One obvious argument is no...but given plants appear to have basic cognition, maybe the answer is yes.

What I'm really leading into here, though, is how plants have sex in the other sense. Male? Female? Other? Something completely different.

Let's look at some plant reproductive strategies and why I call the ash tree outside my window "he."