Look more carefully

Creating the colour palettes for the barks, flowers and leaves has been an eye opener. Take Banksia blechnifolia, which The Doc thought was a fairly bland flower, at least as Banksias go. Here is the image:

At first glance it suggests a bland colour palette, until you analyse the palette. Here are the ten most dominant colours including Rose Gold, Big Dip O’Ruby and Turkish Rose:

Further analysis shows 178,775 total colours, comprising 179 core colours. And The Doc was thinking there was two main colours, white and rose-pink.