16.🌸 Specimen: The Duskmire Bloom

📜 Field Guide Notes:

The Duskmire Bloom opens in muted shades of rose and shadowed purple, its central eye gleaming like amethyst in low light 💜👁️. It rarely flourishes in daylight, preferring the quiet between dusk and midnight. Those who linger nearby often sense the weight of a gaze from the corners of the room, though nothing stirs.

🍄 Habitat & Folklore:

Said to grow at the edges of stagnant pools and marshes, the Duskmire Bloom is tied to folktales of wandering lights over water. Travellers whispered that to follow its glow was to be led astray, deeper into mist and silence.

💀 Warnings:

Keep out of reach of mirrors and water bowls 💧— reflections are said to multiply its gaze until the watcher feels surrounded.

🎨 Sculptor’s Note:

Hand-sculpted in shades of mauve and violet, with soft foliage to conceal its eye, this eerie bloom is set in a mossed terracotta pot 🪴. A specimen both haunting and quietly elegant.