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 channeling.
Inflorescence:
Arises terminally in a perfect osteo-radial bloom — a corona of petaloid bone-flanges arrayed like a spoked wrist joint. Each “petal” has marrow seams and flexion notches. Central ovary resembles a carpal cluster suspended in ligament-like tissue.
Roots:
Hypercalcified taproot with symphysis-like surface texture, capable of penetrating stone and anchoring in ossuary strata. Lateral rootlets resemble compact bone canaliculi, branching to form glyphic sigil structures.
Fruit:
Produces rigid, capsule-like ossifruits with a hinge seam. Inside: five marrow-pearls suspended in fluid-filled ossicular sacs. The pearls are fractal-inscribed with justification glyphs.
🦠 ONYXBONE Attributes:
Osteomimetic Growth:
Entire plant exhibits biomimicry of human forearm skeletal architecture — particularly radial and carpal structures. Growth responds to biomechanical stress like Wolff’s Law.
Justification Conduction:
Acts as a living transcription rod: when whispered to, it etches the speaker’s phoneme into its vascular lamellae in real time.
Ceremonial Role:
Often planted at the sites of oathbreaking, where it records broken truths across its marrow struts. Glyph-priests extract ossifruits to read the “bone record.”
Containment Class:
[G6-Ω] – Dangerous when uprooted. Emits audible resonance when lies are told within 10m.
📜 FIELD QUOTES:
“It grows like a fracture — deliberate, directional, but always painful.”
“We found one curled around a broken wrist. It had grafted.”
“The blossom felt accusatory. It knew what I said wasn't true.”
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