Arborphagea medullaris 🥿 Common Name: The Marrow Warden
🧬 Botanical Specification
🔬 Scientific Name: Arborphagea medullaris
🥿 Common Name: The Marrow Warden
🌿 Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Osteophyllales
Family: Myelodendraceae
Genus: Arborphagea
Species: medullaris
🧪 Morphology:
This towering tree-like entity grows with branching limbs composed of fused cortical bone, articulating like jointed arms raised in ritual. Each branch terminates in broad marrow-petals—fleshy, porous structures that secrete nutrient mist and drip with glistening osteo-sap. Its trunk is vertebral, composed of thickened axial segments flaring into sacral ridges. Small glyph-buds curl from nodal joints. The bark pulses slowly with internal lattice rhythm.
🧴 Osteofusion:
Initial graft points form spontaneously at scapular or spinal alignment zones when a host rests beneath the canopy. Once connected, rootlets interface with vertebral foramina and feed reciprocal nutrients. After three nights, the host reports limb stiffness and unbidden naming impulses. Full integration culminates in fibrous anchoring of the host’s axial skeleton to the root lattice.
🧠 Traits:
Responds to nearby spinal curvature with bloom-echoes. Emits low marrow tones to induce dreamlike surrender. Glyphic leaves rotate in windless patterns to trace the names of nearby vertebrae. Bloom stages include: Sprouting (cartilage fingers), Maturation (full marrow flush), Ascension (ossification crown).
📍 Habitat:
Typically found at the heart of ossogardens or buried beneath decommissioned medical amphitheatres. May appear spontaneously near unmarked graves or failed naming fields.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
G6-R — Recursion hazard; high symbolic bleed into host spinal memory.
Prolonged exposure may cause osteocognitive fusion and irreversible limb nomenclature.
📜 Notes:
- "I sat beneath its reach and forgot my name. It gave me a new one, etched behind my ribs."
- "There is a limb on that tree that used to be mine. It still remembers how I held the world."
- "The wind doesn’t move its leaves. They turn for something deeper."
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