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To reduce such selfing caused by intraplant pollination, duodichogamy (a temporal sexual system involving three alternating sexual phases within an individual) has been suggested to be a common strategy. However, the timing of the female and male phases within individuals throughout floral phenology remains undocumented in any duodichogamous species.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Over 2 years, we quantified flower sexes at the panicle and the plant level throughout flowering in <jats:italic>Firmiana simplex<\/jats:italic> to understand how it minimizes geitonogamy. We studied foraging behavior of diverse insects on staminate and pistillate flowers to examine the anther\/pollen \u201cadvertising\u201d hypothesis, and hand\u2010pollination treatments were used to examine the breeding system.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Flowers on panicles were highly synchronized within the male, then female, then male phases, with only a few days of overlap between pollen release and stigma receptivity. All examined individuals flowered in a sequence of male\u2010female\u2010male. The absence of days when the population contained only female\u2010phase flowers guaranteed that the \u201cexpensive\u201d flowers could be pollinated by diverse bees. Five bee species foraged for nectar but not pollen and did not prefer staminate over pistillate flowers.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Quantitative measurements of daily flower numbers and sexual phases showed that pistillate flowers were highly synchronous and only a few staminate flowers were out of the female\u2010phase days, minimizing reproductive cost in self\u2010incompatible <jats:italic>Firmiana simplex<\/jats:italic>. 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