Bud components and templates

The packaged scene: fifty-five petals in five whorls furl into a bud and open again on a seventeen-second cycle, deep indigo through cornflower into a white heart, under blue light shafts and a star field.

Twelve tepals bowed into a goblet on a leafed stalk, magenta through rose into a warm lip, held against a deep spring-green field with pale green light shafts.

Five notch-tipped petals turned flat to the lens around a forty-four filament corona, pale pink into white over a plum night, the blade lit from whichever face is toward the camera.

A five-lobed toothed leaf laid flat to the lens, expanding from a furled shoot along its petiole, ember red through orange into gold with embers drifting off the blade.