Water lily bloom with roots? and growing new lily pads?

[asmackay]

Has anyone ever seen this before.  This bloom is now growing lily pads and has grown roots.  To my knowledge lilies propagate from the root bulb not from the flowers.

[JetJumper]

I have never seen this before from all the ponds I worked on.  Neither has the guy that worked with me.  Thats crazy!

[asmackay]

I thought it was odd, I will let it grow and see what happens.  The lily has had other normal bloom.  It looks like something that could be planted and grow into a new plant.  The lilly is 30" under water that this bloom came from.  It only gets 4-5 hours of sun. I'll post an update next for anyone interested inhow this thing grows.

[asmackay]

It looks like it's got it's own roots and now has 5 lilly pads grown out and more on the way.   I think I will try planting it at the bottom of the pond and see if it turns into another lily plant.

[Fishnut]

I had some time to kill this morning so I googled water lilly runners.  There's not too much out there but this might explain things:

http://www.gardenguides.com/video-60000-water-lily-reproduce.html

[karjean]

Interesting....