Yang Yuan-po, who has researched water plants, says that the unusual platform-like cupule is shaped the way it is to attract bugs to its pollen, rather than to get human beings to imagine what it would be like to sit on it.
研究水生植物的楊遠波表示，蓮蓬平台狀的特殊造型，是要方便蟲兒停站、接觸花粉，當然不是為了刺激人們想像安坐其上的。