5.🌱 Specimen Name: The Mourning Bloom

📜 Field Guide Entry:

With petals like crumpled funeral silk, the Mourning Bloom thrives in sorrowful soil. Its dark mouth rarely opens, save to exhale a faint, sweet perfume said to lull listeners into uneasy dreams. Legends claim it feeds not on flesh, but on grief itself, growing strongest when placed near relics of loss or whispered regrets. Collectors often find tiny vials of poison nestled in their pots — a grim offering from the plant itself.

🪴 Care Notes:

Keep in quiet corners where silence lingers, and do not water with tears unless you wish it to flourish beyond control.

Each specimen is entirely hand-sculpted, one of a kind, and will never be made in quite the same way again.