ONYXBONE BOTANICAL SPECIFICATION: Calciflora transradii (Splintblossom)
ONYXBONE BOTANICAL SPECIFICATION
🔬 Scientific Name:
Calciflora transradii
(Common name: “Splintblossom” or “Radial Crown”)
🧬 Taxonomic Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Rosales
Family: Osteofloreaceae
Genus: Calciflora
Species: transradii
🌱 Morphological Overview:
Stem & Axis:
Thick, cylindrical, and internally ossified. The primary stem mirrors the human radius bone — a straight shaft with growth nodes mimicking epiphyseal plates. Surface is porous, with vascularized cambial rings and nodal spurs that resemble radial tuberosities.
Leaves:
Radially arranged in a whorl, each leaf stiff and laminar but sheathed in fine osteodermal ridging. Their tips end in calcified thorns shaped like fractured metaphyseal fragments. Undersides show microvascular bone-like chan... See more