You and your neighbor each have a holly bush in your yards. You carefully water and care for your bush, but it fails to produce berries. Your neighbor, on the other hand, neglects his holly, yet it produces gorgeous red berries each year. Finally, in frustration, you replace your holly with a rose bush. The next year, your neighbor's holly bush has no berries at all. What happened?

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Holly plants are dioecious, meaning they have separate male and female plants. Your holly was likely a male, which was needed to pollinate your neighbor's female holly bush. Without your male plant, the neighbor's bush could not produce berries.

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