Sometimes the males and females of a species can look really different from each other. This is pretty common in animals (think peacocks), but there are some plant species out there with extreme sexual dimorphism! And now scientists think they have a pretty good idea how and why this happens, Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara Growing Violet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Thumbnail Image Credit: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leucadendron_rubrum_m_Nicola_van_Berkel_4.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Leucadendron_rubrum#/media/File:Leucadendron_rubrum_f_Nicola_van_Berkel_1.jpg Sexual dimorphism in flowering plants (2012) academic.oup.com/jxb/article/64/1/67/631641 Canopy seed storage is associated with sexual dimorphism in the woody dioecious genus Leucadendron (2010) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01623.x Causes of secondary sexual differences in plants — Evidence from extreme leaf dimorphism in Leucadendron (Proteaceae) (2010) www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629910001481?via%3Dihub Fynbos info: www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/at1202 Pollination www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9991/ Dimorphism sources academic.oup.com/jxb/article/66/20/6083/552631 www.plantcell.org/content/plantcell/1/8/737.full.pdf

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