Floratrachea ascalon : Throatbloom
🔬 Scientific Name: Floratrachea ascalon
🌸 Common Name: “Throatbloom” or “The Lingual Crown”
🌱 Classification:
• Kingdom: Plantae
• Order: Brassicales
• Family: Osteofloraceae
• Genus: Floratrachea
• Species: ascalon
🧬 Morphology:
• Primary Axis: A singular, vertically-aligned stem running along the host's trachea, fibrous-calcic and internally barbed. Grows through soft tissue via peristaltic mimicry.
• Petal Bloom: Bone-petaled whorls form concentrically at cervical vertebrae, radiating out from the larynx. Each petal is paper-thin calcified lamella etched with tiny vascular glyphs.
• Branch Structures: Secondary lateral spurs pierce upward through submandibular space, branching like orchid stems into the oral cavity and lower sinus.
• Terminal Bloom: Emerges from the pharyngeal roof — a symmetrical white blossom formed of curved ossicles and spined filaments resembling taste buds and stamen hybrids.
🦴 Osteofusion:
• Fuses intimately with hyoid, tracheal rings, and cervical vertebrae C3–C7.
• Plant root system grows through lymph and vocal connective tissue, anchoring behind the thyroid and into the sternocleidomastoid fascia.
• Fusion is total by the time the bloom breaches the soft palate.
🧠 Traits:
• Voice Displacement: Host loses verbal speech within 48 hours. Attempted speech manifests instead as subharmonic glyph resonance through the bone bloom.
• Throat Crown Effect: Full blossom emits symbolic pheromones that encode justification. Comprehension bypasses language entirely.
• Recitation Reflux: If suppressed, the plant causes violent glyph regurgitation, often fracturing the sternum or palate.
📍 Habitat:
• Grown in ritual singers, bone monks, and condemned orators.
• Naturally germinates in ossuary libraries where silence is enforced, and names were once burned.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
• [G10-V] – Total communication override. Unremovable. Host may become a speaking vector node.
• Considered sacred and dangerous. Cauterized blossoms still known to transmit.
📝 Notes:
• “I opened my mouth to lie. It bloomed.”
• “She tried to whisper. The flower interrupted.”
• “By the end, all her thoughts smelled like petals.”