it might get leaves. its not totally unheard of.

Lanay, how long is the stem, and how deep is the stem in water? Are the leaves on the flower stem dry above the water or submerged?

Just to clarify... you're seeing roots from the stem leaf and the bottom of the stem?

Wow! Cool. I'd like to try that too.

cheers,
shireen

The stem on the flower is about 1 1/4 inches and is in water up to the neck of the flower. I just checked and the roots on the flower are almost 2 inches long. One leaf stem is abount an inch and half long, roots are about an inch and half long on that leaf. The other leaf stem is
1 3/4 inches long with roots almost 3 inches long. When I first saw the flower roots my first impression was that one of the leafs had 2 sets of roots. Then I took a better look, and took the flower out of the water, and it had roots. The flower is not attached in anyway to the leafs. All of the roots are at the bottom end of the stems on both the leafs and also the flower. Will let you know what happens next.

Thanks, Lanay. That was really interesting to hear, and I look forward to updates. (If you don't post here, please drop me a note at whimbrel at comcast dot net.) I think I'll try the same experiment and see what happens. It would be interesting to see if the flower puts out leaves.

cheers,
shireen