"X-JadisLeaf" by Tim Shumate

This is a reusable object with minimal powers. But the power is great I assure you. It allows the beholder to read the thoughts of anyone they come in contact with.

a star or maybe some man-eating fish monster ready to burst out and EAT YOU !!!

a star is a good idea

Obviously it doesn't have a REAL star inside it - it has something that LOOKS like a star. It's a lightweight orb-shaped seed, hot to the touch and blindingly bright. Chemicals in the seed can be used as medicine, or the seed itself can be kept intact and used as a battery - the radiation it gives off is powerful and long-lasting.
Or, I'm insane.

To be honest with you, please don't take offence, but it kinda looks like a big nose. I mean if you really trace its shape and shadows you will see what I mean. But it is a cool effect. It is like a photogram, however more defined and somewhat delicate.

Truly a wonderful sight to behold. I would imagine that it lives it misty climates. Not in water, and not on land. Perhaps a misty cave system where it's Light is all that can be seen. Judging by the texture, it would likely be of a warm climate. Given it is a flower, it must bring forth seeds. Perhaps the seeds may look like stars, and carry into the wind on cool winters, leaving the caves and filling the sky with countless Orbs of Bright Light, like fire flies. They of course, being deep underground would perhaps be guided to search out areas with no mist. This would mean a merging of plant and animal. Perhaps it's second life stage is the Fire fly, and it spends it's life on the surface, then in it's third life cycle it dies. It seeks out a cave to suffice it's needs, and then blooms into a flower where it has fallen, thus completing the cycle --- hmm well That's my imagination .. lol .. so what do you think of this scenario?

Whoa dood. Ya know those fish that live waayyyyy down at the bottom of the ocean and lure its pray with a mezmerising light? Looks sort of like that.... I dunno, just an idea. Ttyl.

-kt

To me it looks like a mermaids purse, you know, what some species of sharks incubate their young in, so why don't you have it as a real mermaids purse, which baby mermaide burst out from in shoals. It's just an idea.

I like your flower series Tim. Everyone seems to think to think stars or monsters are going to burst out of it, but that's not at all what I thought when I saw this. I think it looks good to eat. It must be a vegetable. although distantly related to cacti, they are aquatic plants, growing from the bottom of the ocean, only on the top edges of ocean rifts where the water is warmed by the heat from the molten centern of the earth, but the pressure it not so great as to collaps them. they are called ocean jewels, and are much prized by the merpeople, and considered a delicacy on account of their texture, taste and great nutritional value. they take one hundred, even two hundred years to mature from a small plant resembling a starfruit, to one the size and shape of an ostrich egg, because unlike cactus, which swell as soon as they get water, these swell only upon absorbing rare minerals and nutrients washed from the very earth itself by the warm currents. this particular ocean jewel is almost mature, but as you can still see the traces of where the creases were, it still needs another 30 years or so. when found they are generally presented to the pregnant women of the mer-tribes, who merely suck out their juices and replant them, but I've heard of a case where in a more barbaric tribe, all the ocean jewels are given to one leader, who dined on them exclusivly, much as the head honcho of the mayans drank only cocoa, although this kind of depletion of natural resources cannot be sustained.

It's a rare plant that grows at the bottom of dark pools, where the water is calm and cold. It filters the oxygen out of the water, much like a fishes gills and stores it in its cacoon like leaves. If ground up into a powder and mixed with water, it gives whatever it's added to a minty and refreshing taste. If its eaten whole it gives the ability to breath underwater for two hours. Be warned though, after the affects wear off it leaves the user exhausted. They can't survive for long in the air and must be kept in a tank with a black cloth over it to keep out the light if it is to keep its air giving properties. It seems to pulse like a beating lung if you look at it closely.

I love all your artwork! ...and I would comment on much more if my finger was not broken

But I had to say that before I read the description for this I though... 'Dragon sperm...'

You are soooo talented!