Ah, you’re just describing our *soreng* and pumpkins! Cucurbitaceae is the family of all those climbers with curling tendrils in my kitchen garden. But “monoecious” always makes me laugh—my ridge gourd has separate male and female flowers, yes, but the bees must cooperate, or I get no fruit! See, it’s not just botany terms—it’s why I tie old saris as flags near the female flowers, to remind the bees. Shisha, without that, the inferior ovary is just a sad little bulb that never becomes dinner.
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