47.🌹 Specimen: The Veinrose

📜 Field Guide

The Veinrose is a strange cousin of the rose, its violet petals unfolding around a dark bud with a pale eye. Its bold green leaves are veined like living maps, said to trace paths through memory and dream. Folklore claims that those who keep a Veinrose often feel watched over, though not always kindly, as if the plant weighs their every choice.

🍄 Habitat

Veinroses thrive in shaded gardens and moss-rich soil, where their roots may tangle with stone. They grow strongest in places where stories linger, as though feeding on memory.

⚠️ Warning

The Veinrose’s gaze is steady, almost regal. Tales warn that if ignored too long, its eye may close — only to follow in reflections instead.

🎨 Sculptor’s Note

Hand-sculpted and painted by hand, each Veinrose is set into mossy soil. No two buds are ever the same, each with its own uncanny eye.