mysterious plant cont...

I forgot to put this was planted from some kind of acorn you can see the acorn like seed just at the base of the plant does any one know what it is
please the only plant I think looks vaguely like it is a Osmanthus Heterophyllus but does anyone know if this has acorn like seeds Also I would like to know what kind of soil it need I just planted it in with an house plant and this is what it looks like now thank you for your help so far.

 

I think that the leaf looks like a Mahonie but they don't grow from "acorns".

Who else has an idea?

 

Rather like an oak tree seedling .......guess i'm wrong though.

 

Could be Holm Oak (aka Holly Oak) - Quercus ilex.

"Leaves are variable in size, one-and-a-half to three inches long, and may have spine-tipped teeth or be untoothed." (Source: Roger Phillips, "Trees in Britain, Europe and North America")

Or maybe Kermes Oak, (Q. coccifera) a prickly Mediterranean shrub - surprisingly not included in Phillips' book, maybe because it doesn't attain the size of a tree.

Might help to know if you picked the acorn up on holiday abroad or in the UK - I don't know if Kermes Oak can survive UK winters...

 

From the picture and your previous desription, it looks very much like a Holm oak.

 

If it came from an acorn then it must be an oak, and the commonest oak in the UK that has leaves anything like that is, as has already been said, holm oak.
Where the seed came from would be a BIG help.

 

I picked it up from the car park at Leeds castle
in Kent

 

Was it green and narrow and pointed?
Leeds castle is about four miles from me. :D

 

sorry I cannot remember as we planted it about November.
In my shrub and tree expert book
there is a picture of a plant with holly like leaves and that is called a Osmanthus Heterophyllus this is what i think it could be, but does anyone know if that has an acorn type seed. If I remember rightly I think the shrubs arround there had sort of black olive like fruit.
leeds gardens is a lovely place it was the first time we have been there, and we took our grandchildren the week after as we enjoyed it so much. thanks for your help.

 

Osmanthus heterophyllus - (all O. spp., in fact) - "The flowers are usually followed by ovoid, blue-black fruit." (Source: RHS A-Z Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants).

You could be right!