Ventriculava memorata: Memory Vine
🔬 Scientific Name: Ventriculava memorata
🧠 Common Name: “The Aortabloom” or “Memory Vine”
🌱 Classification:
• Kingdom: Plantae
• Order: Solanales
• Family: Ossiscriptaceae
• Genus: Ventriculava
• Species: memorata
🧬 Morphology:
• Core Vine: Ribbon-thin and muscle-red, growing in tangled pulses like arterial bundles.
• Leaves: No true leaves. Instead: flanged valve structures resembling heart cusps, layered in recursive trios. Each valve opens and shuts with emotional temperature shifts.
• Inflorescence: Bursts in stuttering cycles from osteofused points. Flowers are ventricular sacs — semi-transparent, fluid-filled, with visible etched glyphs flowing across the inner lining like capillary script.
• Roots: Feeds directly via coronary-style anchorlets that tap into calcified circulatory systems.
🦴 Osteofusion:
• Grows exclusively around sternum, clavicle, or ribcage bones — particularly near fracture sites or cardiac trauma.
• Fusion sites exhibit pulsing glyph formations and sometimes audible thudding (“false heartbeat” phenomenon).
• Tendrils form ventricle-shaped crowns that curve inward toward the thoracic cavity of the host.
🧠 Traits:
• Emotionally Responsive: Vine and bloom behavior changes based on ambient emotional resonance; will recoil from apathy, and pulse violently in proximity to grief.
• Mnemonic Leakage: Osteofused regions secrete thin memory films (analogue to sap) containing broken emotional glyphs.
• Defensive Reflex: Inverts its bloom during deceit or suppression — folding into a bone-rigged bud with needlelike tips.
📍 Habitat:
• Thrives in collapsed hospitals, drowned confessionals, and mass grave resonance pockets.
• Often found trailing down rib-vault walls, clinging to stained relics.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
• [G8-C] – High glyph transmission risk. May induce memory bleed or chest-pressure hallucinations.
• Known to trigger dream incursions in untreated hosts.
📝 Notes:
• “It doesn’t smell like blood. It smells like the moment before blood.”
• “The flowers beat when I lie.”
• “I found one wound around a ribcage like a bridal corsage. Still warm.”