structural pads

I think I've put up pictures last year or the year before of these plants from the Koi Pond at Sarah Duke. Each year I'm amazed again at how they look. I don't know what type of plant they are, but I'd never seen anything like them before.

Each plant has 5 leaves and the smallest one has all those extra "ribs", as you can see better in the picture below. Weird. There's also flowers in the center but I've never been there when one was in full bloom so I don't know what they look like.

lily pad

Just another picture from my walk around the Sarah Duke Gardens on Sunday. The lily pads were on a koi pond. I was going to take some pictures of the fish also but I didn't see any. Just little minnows. It was a hot day and the koi were probably hanging out on the bottom.