My Kansas lily has 2 extra petals also.

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Ooooh, that's a pretty one. It's perfectly symmetrical, amazing.

I know these anomalies happen with other folks' plants sometimes, but it always makes me curious.

I'd definitely save the seeds on yours, I have no idea how rare that is. May be more common than I think but rare to me.

aliska, it's done blooming now and I never thought of saving the seeds. I snapped the seed pod off already.

lila

I snapped the seed pod off already.

That sounds like something I would do. Yours was really more special than mine which is a shame. Maybe you'll get another one on that plant next year. C'est la vie as they say.

The seeds wouldn't necessarily have grown into 8 petals, but it would have been worth a try and a certain percentage odds that some would have, Mendel's peas and all that plus open pollination.

Aliska, I regret snapping that seed pod off and how it never came to my mind to save the seeds. I pollinated my hippeastrums and got tons of seeds from them and I have Lilium Formosanum seedlings that I have started from seeds. Yes, c'est la vie. Maybe next year.

Let's hope there is something in that particular plant that will cause it to happen again. It could have commercial potential I would think but it would be worth more to me as an example of the wonders and vagaries of nature.

There will be scales on that bulb, but it has to be something in the system of the bulb which has currently produced it to cause that, just a conjecture. But offshoots of the bulb just might have inherited the potential for that as well. Just mark the plant and keep an eye on it next year.

Or it was just some unexplainable fluke in the particular bud that produced that flower. I'd dig into more of this sort of thing if I were younger and had the time and means.

Aliska, I will give TLC on this particular lily. I will keep you posted next year. I have learned from your explanations and from now on I will not take for granted the "abnormalities" I see in my plants. Thank you.
lila