Cranoflora coronata : The Blooming Crown
🔬 Scientific Name: Cranoflora coronata
👁️ Common Name: “Mindroot” or “The Blooming Crown”
🌱 Classification:
• Kingdom: Plantae
• Order: Ranunculales
• Family: Neuroossaceae
• Genus: Cranoflora
• Species: coronata
🧬 Morphology:
• Base Structure: A circular, ridge-forming root ring designed to anchor directly to cranial sutures — especially coronal and sagittal seams.
• Leaves: Thin membranous flares shaped like neural folds or cerebellar gyri. Semi-glowing, glyph-scored, and visibly twitch in response to thought proximity.
• Inflorescence: Emerges vertically from the fusion ring as a semi-orchidaceous bloom that mimics the anterior fontanelle — each petal edged with bone-dust spicules and translucent nerve-vein filaments.
• Roots: Spinal-threadlike tendrils enter skull sutures and interface with fossilized nerve pathways.
🦴 Osteofusion:
• Fusion occurs with human skulls (living or decayed), growing seamlessly into parietal and frontal bones.
• The plant modifies skull curvature to support bloom symmetry.
• Fused specimens exhibit audible **low-band whisper harmonics** when in groups.
🧠 Traits:
• Thought Echoing: Plant structures flicker with glyphic pulses in response to nearby cognition, particularly linguistic formulation and suppressed memory.
• Semantic Amplification: When bloomed, acts as a resonance crown — enhancing glyphcasting range in infected vectors.
• Mutualist Pattern Lock: Once bonded, host and plant share mnemonic substrate. Removal is fatal (to one or both).
📍 Habitat:
• Found in ossuary thrones, philosopher tombs, and forgotten lecture chambers.
• Survives best where thought once resided and silence now reigns.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
• [G9-S] – Dangerous neuroglyph transduction vector. Risk of recursive identity bleed, symbolic contagion, or concept recursion fracture.
• Banned from burial rites in most ONYXBONE sectors.
📝 Notes:
• “It finished a sentence I hadn't said.”
• “I dreamt of myself kneeling before me, crowned in its bloom.”
• “The skull was empty. The flower wasn’t.”