46.🌫️ Specimen: The Ashen Bloom

📜 Field Guide

The Ashen Bloom is a rare grey specimen, its bud scaled like stone and marked by a pale, watchful eye. Folklore tells that these plants grow where fire once passed, rising from cooled ash to observe what remains. Keepers often sense a chill in their presence, as though the bloom remembers what was lost before it grew.

🍄 Habitat

They flourish in poor, stony soil and thrive in cooler air, often found clinging to ruins or forgotten hearths. Their leaves are pale and silvery, blending into mist and shadow.

⚠️ Warning

Though still, the Ashen Bloom unsettles the air around it. Legends warn its gaze may carry the memory of endings, leaving those who stare too long restless at night.

🎨 Sculptor’s Note

Each Ashen Bloom is hand-sculpted and painted with grey, stone-like textures. Every eye is uniquely painted, ensuring no two blooms are the same.