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I've grown a lot of avocado seeds at home, but this one was different! I thought it might be a Pinkerton avocado because of the small seed size (and I think I remember buying an elongated avocado a while back), but I've never seen an avocado with serrated leaves. Anyone have any ideas? It grew kinda funny when I put it in water to sprout, too.
Sure looks a lot like an oak, sprouted from an acorn.
You can see remnants of the seed behind that stem - show some more closeups of that. I don't know Loquat at all, but there must be some differences between the seed of that species and an acorn.
The seed didn't look like an acorn when I planted it, it didn't have a hard shell - although I realize the leaves do look like oak leaves. My roommate says he had some acorns he had collected that might have gotten mixed in with my avocado seeds, but it really looked like a small (but not too small to be an) avocado seed (but really big if it was an acorn)! It sprouted from the middle, close to the top of the seed, vice growing from the middle-lower region like an avocado. It split just like an avocado seed when it sprouted in the cup of water. The stem has a fuzz to it, too, if that helps. I'm letting it grow, just to see, but so far, it still looks oak-y...
