are there male and female turnips?

Answer 1

From a gardening standpoint, no, you do not need to plant different types of turnips in order to produce a crop. This is generally only a concern with trees for the home gardener.

If we're being philosophical, I'm staying out of it.

Answer 2

As nutrition i can tell you that vegetables have no determined sex. A turnip that we see is a storage vessel for the plant and has nothing to do with the life cycle of the turnip plant. The flower of the Turnip contains both male and female parts as will most plants. The plant can fulfil both roles of the male and female. e.g. it can be inseminated and can inseminate others.

Answer 3

No there are not, but you might like to know:

The exact place where turnips were domesticated is unknown, but Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Mediterranean region are candidates. Turnips were grown in Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.


Turnip (flower)Evidence from around 1500 BC show farmers of India growing forms of wild turnip for the oil from its seeds. Neolithic evidence show it grown independently in northern climes and from B. campestris roots. These farmers cultivated the round "roots" we know today.

Turnips result from a swollen stalk of the plant and are not a swollen root, as popularly believed.

Answer 4

good question. I think tey probigate by seed, and the flower is both male and female. Not all plants are like that, melons, for eample have different male and female flowers

Answer 5

Yes the ones in the skirts are females ... altho u do get some confused veg sometimes so be carefully !

Answer 6

They couldn't care less.

Answer 7

no