Originally Posted by Gabe15

Depending on the variety, all of the flowers may be morphologically hermaphroditic, but only functionally male or female, functionally neither (as is the case with sterile flowers), or the "female" flowers may actually be functionally hermaphroditic. The transitional flowers can be thought of as more intermediate in a morphological sense, as they transition from the either full female/mostly female flowers to full male/mostly male flowers. The functionality of the flowers depends on the variety, there is a very wide range of function between all the different species and cultivars.