Gender and Flowers

The issue of gender and the Flowers is a perennial (if you'll excuse the pun) one amongst members of the PPC. Some hold that Flowers have actual genders, and are bound to them. Others claim that they are mere honorifics, similar to the names adopted by the Firstborn.

Evidence for Actual Genders

 * Many of the Flowers seem to have personalities to fit their stated genders. The Sub Rosa is very distinctively female, while it would be very hard to think of Hornbeam as anything other than male.
 * The issue of Dandelions. These Flowers have a uniform distinction between male and female: the females have seed-heads, while the males have flower-heads.
 * A Yellow Rose has been known to wear a vine bikini. And flirt outrageously, exclusively with "male" Flowers.

Evidence for Honorifics

 * Well... they're Flowers. Flora do not generally have genders.