Probably was planted in ikitty litter or bentonite (sodium )
clay...........that woul dmake it thecolor you state, and its a common
medium for companies to use it to plant aquatic plants in.

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:56:14 -0400, (Peter Smith)
wrote:
I picked up a lily, put it in my 60 gal. pond.
I woke up this morning to find the water all milky. I did a water
change, but the water was a gray milky color again.

Today when I got home from work I took the plant out, washed all the mud
out and left only the round bark and roots.
I took pea gravel, put the plant in a terra cotta flower pot, then put
it back in.
Do lily's have soil?
If so.
What kind of soil?
How deep?