Man-eating Plants Related Links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7762438.stm
“A new BBC adaptation is being made of The Day of the Triffids…”

http://www.unmuseum.org/maneatp.htm
“A strange tale, but could it be true? Is there flora that traps animals and consumes meat? Are there really man-eating plants?”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eating_tree
Man-eating tree can refer to any of various legendary carnivorous plants that are large enough to kill and consume a person or other large animal. No such plant is known to exist, though a variety of unconfirmed reports have been recorded.[1] Presently, the carnivorous plant with the largest known traps is probably Nepenthes rajah, which produces pitchers up to 35 cm (14 inches) in height and will sometimes consume small mammals.[2]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/27/HOIASVF6T.DTL
It's 1878. Somewhere in the backlands of Madagascar…."The atrocious cannibal tree, that had been so inert and dead, came to sudden savage life… The tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, retracted themselves… ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey."

http://www.californiacarnivores.com/
Since 1989, we have grown and sold the widest variety of carnivorous plants in the United States. Venus flytraps, American pitcher plants, sundews, butterworts, bladderworts, tropical pitcher plants and others - all commercially cultivated for either the curious beginner or the discriminating collector who want the highest quality plants available at competitive prices.