I keep forgetting to post about this one! This is from one of the seeds my sister brought back from the Philippines, the Tiesa! (Pouteria campechiana, 5 months)
We were excited when it germinated because of how unusual and weird it is to even have one of these! (I hadn’t heard of it before she brought it back ahaha.)
It also has a very different growth habit from most of my other plants. The seed is about the side of an avocado pit, and like the avocado uses hypogeal germination (where the cotyledons never go above growth and the seed stays put while the plant grows out of it), as opposed to epigeal germination like most other plants with smaller seeds where you see the cotyledons emerging from the seed case.
Because of the extra stores from such a large seed, it’s pretty beastly compared to the other baby trees. I also notice that it grows in bursts, instead of putting out growth one node at a time like my other plants. (The bay laurel seedling I have also does the same thing where it works on another whorls of leaves before finally expanding them all at once.
Apparently the fruits have the texture of egg yolk and taste sort of like squash?
