What the heck is this…?

[AnnonAddict]

Hi Friends,

Today I acted like the peach and plum tree's and decided it was spring, so I did some spring cleaning in my greenhouse. I found a bunch of old pots with dried out soil that were about a foot to a foot and a half tall. Well, I emptied one of them and I found a seedling that looked Annonaceaeous… I looked for a seed to identify it better but there was nothing. I remember losing a bunch of poshte seeds from fruit lovers a long time ago in a bag of soil and I used the same soil for these pots so I think that might be it? Does poshte have habits look the ones of this seedling?

Here's the seedling… it's about 5.5 inches long. The white stem is about 1/8th of a millimeter thick. Click for bigger resolution.


And here are the roots, very shallow for the width and length of the stem.



Does it look or act anything like Poshte? I thought it might've been jungle sop at first but then realized that if it was I would have found the seed by now… and it would have a much larger system of roots. It is currently in the GH in the shade in a long pot with moist sterile soil. Any idea's?

[Soren]

Hi Friends,

Today I acted like the peach and plum tree's and decided it was spring, so I did some spring cleaning in my greenhouse. I found a bunch of old pots with dried out soil that were about a foot to a foot and a half tall. Well, I emptied one of them and I found a seedling that looked Annonaceaeous… I looked for a seed to identify it better but there was nothing. I remember losing a bunch of poshte seeds from fruit lovers a long time ago in a bag of soil and I used the same soil for these pots so I think that might be it? Does poshte have habits look the ones of this seedling?

Here's the seedling… it's about 5.5 inches long. The white stem is about 1/8th of a millimeter thick. Click for bigger resolution.


And here are the roots, very shallow for the width and length of the stem.



Does it look or act anything like Poshte? I thought it might've been jungle sop at first but then realized that if it was I would have found the seed by now… and it would have a much larger system of roots. It is currently in the GH in the shade in a long pot with moist sterile soil. Any idea's?

A seedling in the dark gets elongated and pale; but doesn't look as a annona to me; could be wrong as my smart phone screen is tiny :-)

[AnnonAddict]

A seedling in the dark gets elongated and pale; but doesn't look as a annona to me; could be wrong as my smart phone screen is tiny :-)

Oh… I was pretty sure it was Annona… I smelled it to see if it had that Annona-smell that most Annona's had… it did. I also peeked under the seeding leaves to see what the mature leaves looked like… just like the new leaves on a Cherimoya tree. But I don't know for sure… time will tell, when it is large enough it will be easy to distinguish if it is Annona or not.

Thanks,

[fruitlovers]

It looks like a bean sprout that i would put in my salad.    I think you would need a plant type Sherlock Holmes to correctly identify it at this stage.

[fyliu]

Magic bean...

[AnnonAddict]

I'll post new pics on here when it opens up the new leaves that can be identified.

[AnnonAddict]

Okay... I took a pic. I am pretty sure it's an Annona now... I will try to learn to use this camera and get a better picture. Sorry for blurry quality, I got a new camera and don't know how to work it very well.

[AnnonAddict]

Here's a much better picture... I just looked up how to zoom and crop pictures.

[nch]

Congrats, Jack. It does look like an annona.

[Soren]

Congrats, Jack. It does look like an annona.

Indeed.!

[Vlk]

I had a similar experience finding this very long sprout actually very deeply in soil in one of the pots I was about to discard. I put it in a small pot and after few days it turned out to be cherimoya :-) Yours looks very similar to what I had, so no doubt about it being an anona :-)

[AnnonAddict]

This little guy is turning out to have extremely large leaves for such a young age... not a very good root system on it either... it needs to be buried in five inches of soil to stabilize the roots. I'll try to post a pic... he looks very different than my other cherimoya seedlings in size... but if size wasn't of matter he's just a common joe cherimoya.

[AlexRF]

Here's a much better picture... I just looked up how to zoom and crop pictures.

My Annona scleroderma seedling initially was very similar  to this.
I believe that this is not Cherimoya.