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Unlike some hermaphrodites, however, leeches can not self-fertilize.
Plants adapted to self-fertilize often have similar stamen and carpel lengths.
Miscanthus, however, does not self-fertilize and is permeable to frost, thus it may not serve as appropriate depending on the location.
They can self-fertilize, and release up to 2,000 juveniles per day, and more than 100,000 in a lifetime.
In these systems, hermaphrodites can only fertilize their own eggs (self-fertilize) and do not mate with other hermaphrodites.
Its ability to self-fertilize allows a single individual to enter new habitat and then reproduce.
There are cleistogamous flowers, which self-fertilize and never open, and chasmogamous flowers, which open and receive pollen from other plants.
Depending upon conditions, garlic mustard flowers either self-fertilize or are cross-pollinated by a variety of insects.