23.🥀 Specimen: The Nightshrike

📜 Field Guide Notes:

Its petals are the color of midnight velvet, folding close around a hungry mouth. The Nightshrike is said to thrive in graveyards and forgotten ruins, its roots feeding on the silence of the dead. Legends tell of its petals trembling just before it strikes, as though it can hear the heartbeats of those nearby.

🧪 Classification: Nocturnal predator bloom; nourished by shadow and stillness.

⚠️ Warning: Do not approach under a waning moon. The Nightshrike grows restless when the night is at its weakest.

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