This research was conducted within the context of pé-de-ouro (Comanthera elegans, Eriocaulaceae), an everlasting flower included on the Red List straightly connected to flower pickers – a traditional community of Serra do Espinhaço region, located in Minas Gerais, Brazil. In 2022, a flower picker’s family of Durães site (Buenópolis, MG) approached the management of the Sempre Vivas National Park (SVNP) seeking a partnership to cultivate pé-de-ouro. Beyond obtaining authorization from the Conservation Unit, they sought a partnership to cultivate them in the same manner as their patriarch once did. This study was guided by the following research question: What can Durães quest to re-enact their memories of pé-de-ouro management reveal about the flower pickers/pé-de-ouro socioecological system in Serra do Espinhaço? The theoretical framework is based on the concepts of oralitura (oraliture), ancestry, and spiral time by the afrobrazilian scholar Leda Maria Martins. The methodological approach was participatory, utilizing literature review, field diaries, and photographic notes as research tools. Through data triangulation, the study constructs the possibility of understanding flower “picking” as oralitura inscribed in the Serra do Espinhaço, where the pé-de-ouro serves as a mediating element of ancestry and its biodiversity-related technologies, and the Durães site as an element composing the spiral space-time of the Traditional Peoples and Communities of the Serra do Espinhaço. We present a conceptual framework titled the “Sempre-Vivas Socio-Ecological System” — based on the figure of a prism — which helps to understand the possibility of breaking away from the linearity of Western epistemes. The four faces of the prism are equally important and comprise the concepts of ancestry, oralituras, time scales within spiral time, and well-established ethical agreements and values. This perspective makes the multidimensionality of the pé-de-ouro visible, enabling biodiversity practices focused on conservation initiatives, innovation, and epistemic justice.