When the Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula was first made known to botanists in the 1760s, they would not believe that it could actually catch and consume insects - until living specimens were observed in action.
Moreover, reports have also emerged from several remote regions of the world concerning horrifying carnivorous plants that can ensnare and devour creatures as large as birds, dogs, and monkeys - and sometimes even humans!
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The Madagascan Man-Eating Tree
More Than Just A Monstrous Myth?
Started by Still Waters , Nov 11 2012 01:58 PM
venus flytrap man-eating tree dionaea muscipula madagasca
Started by Still Waters , Nov 11 2012 01:58 PM
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 01:58 PM
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 02:19 PM
Gotta love how the gratuitous boobage in the first drawing.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 02:25 PM
Rafterman, on 11 November 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:
Gotta love how the gratuitous boobage in the first drawing.
When you can't dazzle them with an actual specimen of a plant that ate a human - make sure to distract them with breasts.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 02:30 PM
So I guess that one was a woman eating plant...
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 02:38 PM
Well, that's not going to make it into any cutesy animated film, is it.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 03:02 PM
That's just what this world needs, man-eating trees.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 06:30 PM
I can see her udders
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 07:14 PM
Old Man Waffles, on 11 November 2012 - 06:30 PM, said:
I can see her udders
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 07:25 PM
Thats one weird looking man....i would be more inclind to investicate the man with boobs, for more interesting!!! before looking at the man eating tree.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 09:02 PM
I recall reading this story before, I doubt theres any truth to it and I thought the biggest animal a plant could eat was at most a rat. Interesting though ever see the movie The Ruins 
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THAT IS NOT DEAD WHICH MAY ETERNAL LIE, AND WITH STRANGE AEONS EVEN DEATH MAY DIE - H.P. LOVECRAFT
YOUR PUNY TECHNOLOGY IS NO MATCH FOR THE FORCES OF NATURE!
THAT IS NOT DEAD WHICH MAY ETERNAL LIE, AND WITH STRANGE AEONS EVEN DEATH MAY DIE - H.P. LOVECRAFT
YOUR PUNY TECHNOLOGY IS NO MATCH FOR THE FORCES OF NATURE!
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 09:13 PM
Mnemonix, on 11 November 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:
That's just what this world needs, man-eating trees.
Maybe we can gift those trees to al-Qaeda training camps.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 11:56 PM
I could think of several people I'd like to 'introduce' to that miracle of nature! 
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Ah, but I was so much older then,
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 01:31 AM
I wonder what show they're going to bump on TV for...Mystery of the Man-eating Trees series...excuse my while I pull out some nose hairs...
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Last night I srink too much Cognac an ze chair hit me in ze head." Black Red Devil"Looks like Chappy took a crappy in my gumbo." G. Ramsay
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 02:12 AM
Still Waters, on 11 November 2012 - 01:58 PM, said:
When the Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula was first made known to botanists in the 1760s, they would not believe that it could actually catch and consume insects - until living specimens were observed in action.
Moreover, reports have also emerged from several remote regions of the world concerning horrifying carnivorous plants that can ensnare and devour creatures as large as birds, dogs, and monkeys - and sometimes even humans!
http://karlshuker.bl...-tree-more.html
Moreover, reports have also emerged from several remote regions of the world concerning horrifying carnivorous plants that can ensnare and devour creatures as large as birds, dogs, and monkeys - and sometimes even humans!
http://karlshuker.bl...-tree-more.html
Total hoax!
As a collector, I have about a thousand plants at my house, many from Madagascar. Not only does this species not exist, the genus doesn't exist either. If this plant actually existed, it would be a well known plant and places like the Huntington Botanical Gardens in southern California, and the Kew Gardens in London would have one in their collections.
http://www.museumofh...e_of_madagascar
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Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now. Dylan
Posted 12 November 2012 - 02:51 AM
Euphorbia, on 12 November 2012 - 02:12 AM, said:
Total hoax!
As a collector, I have about a thousand plants at my house, many from Madagascar. Not only does this species not exist, the genus doesn't exist either. If this plant actually existed, it would be a well known plant and places like the Huntington Botanical Gardens in southern California, and the Kew Gardens in London would have one in their collections.
http://www.museumofh...e_of_madagascar
As a collector, I have about a thousand plants at my house, many from Madagascar. Not only does this species not exist, the genus doesn't exist either. If this plant actually existed, it would be a well known plant and places like the Huntington Botanical Gardens in southern California, and the Kew Gardens in London would have one in their collections.
http://www.museumofh...e_of_madagascar
Sounds awesome. All different or do you have a preference in your collection? Tell us about it. Any pics?
Just watch out for fast growing hungry one in the corner.
"Sacre bleu Last night I srink too much Cognac an ze chair hit me in ze head." Black Red Devil
"Looks like Chappy took a crappy in my gumbo." G. Ramsay
Last night I srink too much Cognac an ze chair hit me in ze head." Black Red Devil"Looks like Chappy took a crappy in my gumbo." G. Ramsay
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