A Surprise Plant

by Salma
(Cairo, Egypt)

We have a our garden in our balcony and suddenly an extremely new plant just rapidly grew our theories say that there was a bird that came with the seed and dropped in the soil and I wanted to know what is this plant's name and what will it look like when it full grows.
How much water and sun does it need.

Salva, Hello and welcome! I think your theory of a bird dropping a seed on your balcony is probably exactly right. Keep in mind what kinds of seeds a bird would be most interested in, and you might not want to keep this plant - it's possible that it comes from a tree, which won't be happy up on a balcony, and besides it will most likely get too big.

I'm not familiar with the plants you have in Egypt as in many cases we don't have the same ones in Canada, so I can't identify it.

For care, it looks like it's thriving in your sunny balcony, so other than just watering once in a while, I doubt it really needs much else. If anything, you don't want it to grow too much!

Enjoy it for a while, and think of giving it a new home out in the real world.

Jacki