Identification: identify plant grown from seed

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  1. nico

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    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.
     

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  2. Rima

    Rima Active Member

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    Could be a fig (look up Ficus binnendijkii alii, or just Ficus alii), but other than that..?
     
  3. nico

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    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!
     
  4. Michael F

    Michael F Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    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).
     
  5. nico

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    Well done,

    when I read your reply I remebered sticking some of those in the pot,

    dug it up a bit and found it.
     

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