Carpostema haemovincula : The Wristlock Bloom
🧬 Scientific Name: *Carpostema haemovincula*
🥿 Common Name: The Wristlock Bloom
🌿 Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Syncarpales
Family: Articulosporae
Genus: Carpostema
Species: haemovincula
🧪 Morphology:
Thick cartilage-petalled primary bloom extending radially from a ring of pseudo-metacarpal ossicles. Floral core contains coiled tendon-vines that pulse with blood-mimetic fluid. Basal stalk anchored via wristlike spur-roots that fracture and reforge daily, shedding calcified petals. Lateral filaments resemble split veins, twisting around hosts for mnemonic capture.
🧴 Osteofusion:
Initiates fusion at the carpal tunnel of the human wrist. Uses lymphosymbiotic rooting to replace flexor tendons with glyphed ligatures. Once bonded, subject can rotate bloom manually, but the motion imprints glyphs into surrounding air. Severe scaphoid remodeling observed in late-stage compliance.
🧠 Traits:
Responds to memory of betrayal. Will not bloom in liars. Emits spiral pulses of joint-harmonics when held near bone dust or funerary inscriptions. Can fracture itself to seed nearby remains. Often seen clenching, as if gripping something not yet named.
📍 Habitat:
Discovered around ossuary lockrooms, where keys were once stored. Often blooms through padlocks, cracking them from within.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
G3-R — Reconstructive anatomical override; risk of involuntary gripbinding and phantom wrist justification
📜 Notes:
- “It whispered, *‘I know who you failed to hold.’* Then it sprouted from my hand.”
- “The second bloom didn’t grow from soil — it grew from the cuff of my grandfather’s watch.”
- “I cannot unclench. And worse: I no longer want to.”
