Most of the seeds my sister brought me from the Philippines that ended up germinating were Star Apples (Chrysophyllum cainito) and Soursops (Annona muricata), but one day I noticed a shoot coming out of the soil that was using hypogeal germination instead of epigeal germination, which is to say, the seed and cotyledons stayed below ground like peas and beans instead of being visible above ground like tomatoes and cactuses, and the first visible leaves are the true leaves.
I took a peak at the seed below ground and I believe that this is a lanzones! (Lansium parasiticum) I hadn’t even heard of the fruit before she had collected the seeds and apparently it’s in the mahogany family and in the same order as soapberries, so this is going to make a very unusual houseplant!
(~62 days)
