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From a few examples in my notes, I noticed the following:

* $-z+z^{14}$ has 13 petals.
* $-z+z^3$ has 4 petals.

I'm not able to find a proof of the result above, but I am able to deduce that there are:

* an $2p$ petals if $p+1$ is odd
* if $p+1$ is even then there are $p$ petals.

Could you provide some intuition, or a sketch of the result?

There is a theorem I'm leaning on to get some information:

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But using this theorem, it only shows me that there should always be $p$ petals (ex, there is a petal in between every $\frac{2\pi k\_i}{13}, \frac{2\pi k\_{i+1}}{13}$). 

Besides getting a sketch of the proof, I have one more questions:

* In the even case, there is an overlap between attracting or repelling petals?