Seedlings in inappropriate places

[Steve Mac]

Have you ever had seedlings come up in funny or unusual places?

I took this one in Thailand.

[PalmTreeDude]

Yeah, they grow in bad places, then die after they can't get anymore root room. 

[sbpalms]

Many times. I've seen a young butia growing in a hole in another butia. It was strange, to say the least.

Edited January 2, 2017 by sbpalms

[kinzyjr]

Volunteer sabals and washingtonias definitely take the prize for that here.  There was a volunteer sabal growing in a few inches of leaves and dirt that had accumulated between the trunks in my neighbor's crape myrtle.

[tropicbreeze]

I get occasional Oil Palm seedlings germinating on the parent Oil Palm trees. This one is about 2 metres above the ground, amongst a few other epiphytes.

Found this growing naturally, a Livistona humilis about 5 metres above ground in the fork of a Eucalyptus. Has a trunk around a metre long so would have to be over 20 years old and still growing healthily.