At that time, the Ministry of the Interior's protocol, uniforms and insignia approval committee had already recommended the plum flower as the national flower, with the triple grouping of its stamens symbolizing the Three Principles of the People, and its five petals the constitutional five-way separation of powers.
而此時內政部禮制服章審定委員會，已經簽呈以三萼五瓣象徵三民主義五權憲法的梅花為國花。