1, Carola:
The end of the male flower corolla is pointed.
The corolla of a female flower is not pointed, but curved.
2. Stamens:
The stamens of male flowers are long styles.
The stamens of female flowers are four-petaled.
3. Pedicel:
There is a swollen melon embryo on the pedicel of the female flower.
The stems of male flowers have no embryos.
Extended data:
Pumpkin flowers is apricot yellow, monoecious and solitary. Corolla lobes of male flowers are large, and the apex is long and sharp; Female calyx lobes leaflike; Stigma III, swollen, cleft. The flower stalk is about 30 cm long. Receptacle is green and pentagonal bell-shaped. Peel off the flower stalk, the surface of the receptacle and the flower core, and the rest can be eaten.
Pumpkin flowers is both a vegetable and a medicine. It has the auxiliary functions of clearing away damp-heat, eliminating swelling and removing blood stasis, resisting and preventing cancer, and treating jaundice, dysentery, cough, carbuncle conjunctivitis, mastitis and other inflammations, and is often used as health food.
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