Help me decide how to paint my Dollzone Anson's arms

Hello everyone. After many years of longing, I managed to get my grail doll earlier this year! I thought I had her all planned out, I was going for a look inspired by my great grandmother's china, etc... And then when I was nearly done with the head, it hit me that the reason Anson's arm petals are so different than the head petals is that they're not petals! They're shaped like leaves growing out of a stalk!

So now I must make a decision... Go with my original vision and have everything match, or paint her arms completely differently and make her look even more like the living plant she is. To make it harder, I haven't seen anyone paint the arms and head in completely different styles, which gives me less of an idea how it'll turn out.

Here's her almost finished faceup, it's more pink and less red in person:


My friend suggested trying to emulate a Darlingtonia on her arms, which I fell in love with... They're very hard to paint though. Here's my best attempt at a Darlingtonia mockup, the center yellow looks more like a very light green in person:

I also did a mockup of a "generic" leaf look:


What do you think? If you think I should go with the leaf look, I'd love suggestions for specific plants to emulate. (And if anyone has suggestions for making the darlingtonia mockup look more like a darlingtonia, that would also be nice.)

 

Thanks everyone! One thing's for sure -- I'll definitely have to make more mockups. I appreciate all your suggestions, I want to try lots of ideas so I can have a great final doll!

@Blodeuwedd Thanks for your detailed suggestions on how to improve my darlingtonia drawing. There's a crease in the middle of the darlingtonia leaf and Anson's arms, I think trying to work that into my mockup threw it off. Along with trying to simplify the beautiful fractal pattern.

@Rosenfinch Thanks for the specific plant suggestion, I'll definitely try that one. A friend of mine also suggested croton, but I think your idea might be easier to work a gradient into.

@lavenderbear Actually, as soon as I read @Nyake 's suggestion, I thought "rhubarb"!