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A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...
Audrey Jr.: a human-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name; Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire. [1]
The screenplay was written under the title The Passionate People Eater. [6] [7] [10] Welles stated, "The reason that The Little Shop of Horrors worked is because it was a love project. It was our love project." [7] The film's concept may have been inspired by "Green Thoughts", a 1932 story by John Collier about a man-eating plant. [27]
Nepenthes attenboroughii (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ æ t ən ˈ b ʌr i aɪ,-ˌ æ t ən b ə ˈ r oʊ ɡ i aɪ /), or Attenborough's pitcher plant, [3] is a montane species of carnivorous pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes. It is named after the celebrated broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, [4] [5] who is a keen enthusiast ...
An upper pitcher of Nepenthes lowii, a tropical pitcher plant that supplements its carnivorous diet with tree shrew droppings. [1] [2] [3]Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small mammals and birds.
The conifer division of plants includes the tallest organism, and the largest single-stemmed plants by wood volume, wood mass, and main stem circumference.The largest by wood volume and mass is the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), native to Sierra Nevada and California; it grows to an average height of 70–85 m (230–279 ft) and 5–7 m (16–23 ft) in diameter. [1]
Gophers love to eat food growing in vegetable gardens. "Gophers can consume up to 60 percent of their body weight daily which can quickly make them a nuisance to your lawn and garden," says Pearson.
A giant hogweed plant usually produces a flowering stalk in 3–5 years, [2] [14] but plants may take up to eight years to flower if conditions are unfavourable. In the Czech Republic, a single plant reached twelve years old before flowering. [15] In any case, when the plant finally flowers, it does so between June and July (in the northern ...