Water Gardening: Lotus Tuber Photo, 0 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
Hmmm? Okay, if you go back to the start of this thread and you enlarge the very first picture. You will see three different tubers.
You'll see a yardstick and quarter in the photo also to give you some idea of scale for this variety of lotus 'Strawberry Blonde'. All the tubers in that picture came out of the same pot. You should be able to get a plant from all three pieces pictured. Actually, I could probably divide the one in the center into more divisions since there are more growing tips showing.

This lotus gets big given enough room and food. I've had leaves over five feet tall.

In the above picture with my hand, the left section (which is fatter) is the tuber. You can't see the tuber completely, but yes you should be able to get a plant from that.

I have one bowl lotus; however, I haven't divided it yet so I don't know what those tubers look like. It's in a bowl about the size of a salad bowl.

I have looked on the internet for some good photos of lotus tubers and Bonnie's was the closest I found. That was one reason why I thought I would go a head and divide this pot this fall and take some photos.


When you divide lotus often the soil seems like clay even if you started out with regular top soil. There is often this odor. It's very distinct. Primordial is the only word I can think of to describe the smell. You'll probably find some dead tubers too. Someone told me the older "mother" tubers just die off. Below is a cross section of a dead tuber.

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