Field Notes: May 17, 2025 Location: Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Encounter Summary: A hiking party sent me footage of Lumenfloris cataracta, known to local guides as "Quetzal’s Lamp," a calf-sized dome of slate bracts half-buried in rootmats. When they paused, the mass heaved and opened: five ember-orange petals unfurled, veins lacing like green lightning. The center seemed to blaze. Petals fanned and rippled but the animal held its ground, no threat beyond wind and

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Field Notes: December 23, 2025 Location: Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Encounter Summary: I had heard the rumors in the village canteen last night—whispers of a creature the locals call the "Twilight Trap." An old man claimed that there are leaves in the forest that steal colors from the sky at dusk and hide them against the mud. He said that if you touch the right dead leaf, you unleash a storm of violet lightning. I assumed it was a metaphor for some poisonous plant

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