Maybe this would've been more interesting to post? I don't know. The left is the original and probably had too many vertices, so I decided to decimate it a bit.
This uses 2 different sets of vertex colors (and slightly different plane geometry for different colors) then proportional editing to give it a 3D shape, also some of it is reused. 13 leaves. I actually left the original unbent ones in too (in the middle).