The attached is the shader I came up with ultimately, of course with the help of texture maps. I finished up the shader and displacement mapping for the leaves as well. I'm nearly to the point where I feel I can begin morphing - I like the textures in place before I do those.

As an aside, I was elated to find that I could apply a slight colored cloud effect to the leaves so that they all look a little different between the leaves when setting the cloud filter to Global. Since they all use the same map, that helped to break them up a bit ;o). I'll admit its very subtle, but anything more distinct was glaringly obvious.

I'm learning a lot with this exercise. It's also been a huge exercise in patience...lmao.

Laurie