You may not use ANY editing tool to move, remove or duplicate any element of your photograph that would change a typical viewer's description of the photograph (aside from color), even if the tool is otherwise legal, and regardless of whether you intended the change when the photograph was taken.
In this case, the carpet the leaf is resting on is just too strong of an element for you to utterly obliterate the texture as you did.
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