In fact, androgynous names are increasing faster in red states than blue, perhaps because liberal parents tend to be older and therefore, less open to breaking conventions.
That's true of plants that reproduce vegetatively (from a tuber or root of the parent plant), or that are hermaphrodites capable of fertilizing themselves.
He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment;that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.
Some mutant hermaphrodites lost their self-incompatibility and became able to fertilize themselves—a process exemplified by many fruit trees such as plums, peaches, apples, apricots, and cherries.
Recall that most wild plants either are regularly cross-pollinated hermaphrodites or consist of separate male and female individuals that inevitably depend on another individual for pollination.
And actually there's an Elizabethan legal expert who describes what has to happen if someone who he calls a hermaphrodite chooses to become a man, then he can inherit the estate.
In fact one goes back to Shakespeare's mind as the type of the androgynous, of the man-womanly mind, though it would be impossible to say what Shakespeare thought of women.
Modern research has much diminished the number of supposed hermaphrodites and of real hermaphrodites a large number pair; that is, two individuals regularly unite for reproduction, which is all that concerns us.