Apon questions

[br553]

I recently shut down my 5g tropical tank and moved all of the plants to my 10g tank. When I was doing this, I came across a plant that looks like a garden variety apon, all floating leaves, but had no bulb. It reminds me of a sword plant, but the stems and leaves are like an apon natans.
The plant has a cluster of roots at its base (rhizome?) and seems quite healthy. Has anyone ever heard of a apon doing this, as in never developing a bulb? Maybe a seed or off-shoot that has not developed a tuber? Or perhaps a seed that hitchhiked on one of the bulbs that I put in the tank?The only plants that have ever been in the tank are various aponogetons

[Mgamer20o0]

no expert at all or know much about them. things can rot maybe that could explain it or maybe its still forming.

[fishorama]

Maybe cryptocoryne aponogetifolia?

[br553]

I'm thinking it is an aponogeton with no bulb for some reason, probably a new plant that hasn't formed a bulb yet. The leaves do not look anything like the crypt mentioned above.

[br553]

I guess I was mistaken on the plant description. Yesterday, some of my cory cats uprooted the plant, and I did see a very small bulb buried within the roots as I was replanting it. It just caught me by suprise as I have never had a seed or off-shoot grow to maturity.

[Hurley]

I had a tiger lotus plant that sprouted from a bulb but then when it got bigger the plant would un-attach from the bulb and live on its own. The bulb would then start a new plant. I've never had apons before but I would think its possible that the plant does this as well.

[br553]

I also have dwarf lilies that have done that. The most I had seen before on an apon was a regular bulb sprouting multiple crowns. My madagascar lace hybrid is one that is doing that.