26.🥀 Specimen: The Shadebloom

🌿 Field Description Dusky petals of violet and pink cradle a dark pod, its lips parted to reveal pale, glinting teeth. Twisting branches rise from the stem, dotted with strange purple orbs that seem to shimmer faintly in the light. Collectors say the orbs are seed husks, though some believe them to be eyes that closed long ago. At its roots, a tiny glass vessel lies nestled in the moss, as if the plant itself has claimed a keepsake from another life. The Shadebloom is said to thrive where light fades, feeding on the hush of twilight hours.

🧪 Habitat & Folklore Found in shaded groves and forgotten gardens, folklore whispers that its orbs store fragments of memory stolen from passers-by.

💀 Warnings Do not touch the pods or orbs—contact may leave one light-headed, with half-remembered thoughts that are not your own.

🎨 Sculptor’s Note Hand-sculpted and one of a kind, with twisting vines, violet petals, and a pod set with pale teeth.