Hi, I want to populate a landscape with thousands of trees. I think i will need to use “planes” for the leaves to use that many trees so I was wondering if sapling can create a tree with planes like you see below or if I should try another solution.
Yes, Sapling can provide large planes for the leaves… but not folded planes as in your image. For that, you need to convert the tree to a mesh and then add a particle system for the leaves.
And if you want to use such a tree as object in a particle system, you’ll have to convert the particle leaves to real objects first.
No big deal. 
Thanks Kaluura.