How does the structure of the sacred lotus flower relate to its function?
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How does the structure of the sacred lotus flower relate to its function?
The flower buds express the same tight, pointy quality as the leaves, and later also unfurl into a chalice-like multi-petaled blossom with a central head or urn-like pod. The pointy buds are all green, multi-layered, and tightly outlined, with no color initially. As the flower bud begins to mature, it gets more relaxed, pinking up, but still maintaining the tight symmetry of the upward pointing bud. The fully opened blossom falls downward, away from the central cupule. When the petals drop, the central pod enlarges and ripens, also expressing the same shape as the flower. The flowers appear very delicate in relation to the rest of the plant.
The roots are buried in the mud, and the stalks of the leaves and flowers are strongly attached to the root, resisting the tug of human hands to pull them out without cutting them. The stalks are also very fibrous, bending closer to the water as the stalk dries and the seeds mature.
The flowers and the leaves all appeared to be reaching for the sun. The flowers closed in the late afternoon. Their motion definitely seems to be in relation to the sunshine. The leaves and pods remain upright, facing the sky, until they bend at some point in the stem when they are dying or ripening. Then these parts of the plant seem to return to the surface of the water, back into the depths and their roots.
The Lotus was very sturdy and well anchored. Although the flowers looked delicate, the petals were fairly substantial, at least to the touch. The strong stems of flowers and leaves were tubular and hollow, like conduits from the water upward.