I get sent to work with a little box of healthy "seeds". These have been dried and processed so I assumed they were dead, every so often I have tried planting some hopefuls and I went on holliday and returned to this one. It is approximatly 10 cm high after 3 weeks. The colour renderin is pretty accurate. Appears to be more than one shoot at base with sun / dehydration dammage to all but one. I have not dug up the seed to see which it was in case of dammage. I remember planting some tiny dried fig seeds, some sunflower like seeds and some othere that I could not identify. very interested to find out what.
Ok, it is likly a fig as that was amongst those planted. It could be a Banana-leaf fig or a red leaf fig - given the colour. I had no ide there were so many types of fig, I have only seen the classic five pointed leaf "cover my bits" biblical fig, in the UK and Italy. As I am in aberdeen it will have to live inside, any growing hints would be helpful, I hope it is a dwarf variety!
Looks like a Lychee (Litchi chinensis) seedling to me. Grows from a seed a bit like a small oval conker (about 2cm long, 1 cm diameter, with a pale scar at one end).
Well done, when I read your reply I remebered sticking some of those in the pot, dug it up a bit and found it.
