A plant that produces viable seed when fertilized with its own pollen.
A plant which sets fruit and seed when fertilised with its own pollenCapable of fertilisation and setting seed after self-pollination.
A plant that does not need pollen from a second individual in order to fertilise and set fruit.
Fertile by means of its own pollen. This makes it theoretically possible for both pollen and ovules to unite (with the help of pollinators such as bees) and produce fruit without a second tree being present.
a plant that does not need pollen from another plant to reproduceA plant that does not need pollen from a second individual in order to fertilise and set fruit.
A plant that is able to pollinate itself and so will produce fruit without the help of another similar plants in its environs. Bi-sexual plants have male and female flowers on the same plant and can thus be self-fertile.