Flower modeling question

[walkinginspace]

I'm making some morphs for a flower opening sequence and have a great leaf made. Now, in the beginning stages of a flower the outer leaves are seamless together. I'm looking for a way to make have the leaves butt up next to each other, but i keep getting overlap and the like. There's really no way for me to edit one leaf and have the others react at the same time without making them a whole object. I need the leaves to be seperate for the morphs. Any clues on this? I've attached some images to help clarify. Thanks!

[toby]

After you've made the morphs, copy the leaf into the next layer, rotate everything 90 degrees using 'rotate morph', do that 3 times, then you can put each layer in the background and adjust the models to fit each other.

[walkinginspace]

Here's a still from the animation. I'll post a link the animation soon.