34.🧪 Specimen: The Widow’s Draught

📜 Field Guide Notes:

The Widow’s Draught blooms in shades of violet and indigo, its central eye 👁️ glimmering from within folded petals. Nestled in its soil lies a tiny sealed vial marked with the sign of poison ☠️. Though corked, some claim it hums faintly when the air is still, as though something within still stirs.

🍄 Habitat & Folklore:

Found in the ruins of forgotten apothecaries, the Widow’s Draught is linked to hedge-healers who delved too far into venomous arts. Folklore insists the flower “remembers” every toxin it has tasted, exhaling ghostly scents long after the source is gone.

💀 Warnings:

Do not tamper with the vial. Witnesses report metallic tastes on the tongue and dreams of drowning when its seal is disturbed.

🎨 Sculptor’s Note:

Hand-sculpted with layered petals, a watchful eye, and a miniature apothecary relic 🧪🪴. A unique and haunting bloom from the Poison Garden.