Jungle

Field guide No. 1240

A dry brown leaf on pale soil has its torn edge breaking into butterflies of the same colour, which scatter across the ground. It is the only autumn that has ever flown.

Torn leaf, emerging butterflies

One leaf, several exits.

A dry brown leaf on pale soil has its torn edge breaking into butterflies of the same colour, which scatter across the ground. It is the only autumn that has ever flown.

Field noteA torn leaf edge turns into butterflies of its own colour. Moths do mimic leaves; none are born from one.

Specimen
No. 1240
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Category
Where it doesn’t exist
Pale soil, where a leaf is a leaf
Nearest existing relative
a dead leaf and a leaf butterfly.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking category