Meet Solanum plastisexum: A sex-changing tomato in Oz

It is not unusual for plants to be hermaphrodites — that is, for their flowers to have both male and female reproductive functions — but this species, a bush tomato whose fertilised flowers produce fruits, did not conform even to the fluid norms of the plant kingdom.

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