12.🍂 Specimen: The Autumn’s Breath

🌿 Field Description Its petals fade in shades of rust and copper, curling like leaves at the close of summer. At the heart rests a darkened pod shaped like pursed lips—silent, watchful, and unnervingly human. Though still, it is said to exhale faint whispers when dusk settles, as though breathing with the fall of every dying leaf. Beneath its branches, collectors have found soil turned brittle and dry, as if the plant consumes the season itself.

🧪 Habitat & Folklore Found in abandoned orchards and forgotten gardens, this bloom emerges only as the year wanes. Folklore warns its breath carries the chill of winter.

💀 Warnings Do not inhale too near the pod—may cause dizziness or sudden chills. Night exposure may bring dreams of suffocating beneath fallen leaves.

🎨 Sculptor’s Note Hand-sculpted and one of a kind, captured with coppered foliage and a sealed pod.