With enough water and nutrients, the round, flat lotus leaves can grow to three meters in diameter. Expansively green, the lotus leaves touch the sky; lotus leaves fill the pond while their flowers stand tall and straight. For a painter, it would be doing a wrong to such a flower not to paint it.
若是水份養份俱足，圓盾狀的荷葉直徑可長到三尺，接天蓮葉無窮碧，覆滿池塘的田田荷葉與亭亭花枝，對畫家而言可「大開大闔」，不畫太對不起荷花了。