Sydney-born tennis sensation Johanna Konta says her heart is with Britain. For Australian tennis, Johanna Konta is the one that got away and sheâs not coming back. Born in Sydney and fluent in English and Hungarian â the first language of father Gabor â Konta headed to Spain when she was 14 to follow her tennis dream.
Prized for their sweet, fragrant fruit, lychees (Litchi chinensis) are tropical evergreen trees sometimes cultivated within U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 and 11. Although most commonly propagated by air layering, most lychee varieties will also grow from fresh seeds. Once planted, the seeds will germinate in approximately one month if kept under consistently warm and shady conditions.
Cut across a dicot's stem, and the vascular bundles inside are arranged in concentric rings. The vast majority of trees are dicots, and tree rings are such concentric rings. When a dicot's seed sprouts, the seedling raises two leaves, or cotyledons, above the ground, with the future stem arising between them.This is very unlike the monocot's single cotyledon.About 170,000 dicot species are known worldwide.ut across a monocot's stem and the water-bearing tubes, or vascular bundles, inside are scattered throughout the pith, not arranged in concentric rings like the rings of a tree. When a monocot's seed sprouts, the first leaf up is a single spike looking like a simple blade of grass arising from the soil.