@vincav81 – I need to go back to the project guidelines a little. You’re correct, from the perspective of the photo, I could probably reduce the number of limbs significantly and have leaves floating with no attachment to branches at all, and one wouldn’t be able to tell because they’re so far away.
If the goal is to be able to “fly” through the model, and be able to take good photos of it from other perspectives, it’s possible one of the mid ground trees could become in focus, in which case having leaves obviously floating away from the limbs would be problematic.