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->''"This was a man-eating plant. If it had germinated, it would have required us just as much as we require green vegetables."''
-->-- '''Dr. Sheldon''', ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', "Man-Eater of Surrey Green"

A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap Venus flytrap]] is one of the coolest plants out there: It's ''carnivorous!'' And it eats insects! Its leaves even resemble [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily grotesque, tooth-lined mouths]]. How cool is that? Now let's [[SquareCubeLaw enlarge the plant about 100 times]], and give it a taste for people!

Of course, there are differences. For one, Man-Eating Plants don't just wait motionlessly for someone to step into their leaf -- they can move and actively chase their victims (thankfully, they usually can't uproot themselves from where they grow). They also [[NoisyNature tend to growl and roar]]. Somehow.

Their leaves' resemblance to animal mouths also tends to get highly exaggerated -- they might be dripping with saliva, be lined with ''actual'' razor-sharp teeth, or sport a tongue. Often, the plant's "mouth" is depicted as an elaborate, colorful bulb without any real parallels in real-life plant anatomy. In fact, while the real plant eats insects by trapping them within its leaves and digesting them there, the Man-Eating Plant actually swallows its victims; its stalk works like an esophagus while the roots seem to house an animal-like digestive system.

Besides the main set of jaws, their attacks may include typical traits of fictional plants: [[VineTentacles entangling with rapidly-growing or mobile vines]], spewing damaging or debilitating substances -- AlluringFlowers are often depicting as feeding on creatures enthralled by their mind-numbing scents -- or even spawning mini-copies of themselves that threaten to inflict a DeathOfAThousandCuts.

Unless they are sufficiently vulnerable to normal attacks (although they typically take [[DamageSpongeBoss LOTS of ammo]] to kill this way), expect them to be fought by means used against plants in RealLife (or just take much more damage from them): cutting tools, weedcutters, pesticides, fire (or even napalm) or acid (they might instead attack with acid themselves). While doing this, a hero may be cracking snarky gardening-themed remarks.

Other varieties of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plant carnivorous plants]] don't show up anywhere nearly as often. This is partially because [[SmallReferencePools they're not as well-known]] and don't sport [[RuleOfCool that awesome carnivore-like appearance]];[[note]]Ironically, Venus flytraps, the only plants with "jaw" traps, are incredibly rare -- they're only found in a few swamps in the Carolinas -- while pitchers are the most widespread type of carnivorous plant[[/note]] what's more, their trapping mechanisms tend to be more passive -- making them little more than [[StickySituation living flypaper]] or a PitTrap, which doesn't make for an exciting monster. The most common alternative variants are based on pitcher plants, with big bell-like stomachs in which to trap and digest prey. Other carnivorous plants, such as the sticky, entangling sundews and the aquatic bladderworts, are almost unheard of. Occasionally, a writer may simply take a regular, inert plant, such as a tree or a flower, and give it mobility, acidic secretions, and a taste for meat. A few are also more like normal plants, but are impatient enough for fertilizer that they actively kill prey and entangle the corpses within their roots.

In JapaneseMedia, the giant flower [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafflesia Rafflesia]] sometimes gets depicted‎ as this, though in RealLife it's a non-insectivorous root parasite (which incidentally makes it more like a ''herbivorous'' plant than anything else). Although the ''smell'' it gives off could certainly bring to mind images of the remains of previous animal meals rotting inside, which may be how it got that reputation.

Regardless of type, these aren't typically plants found growing among daisies and oaks in the woods behind your home -- as a rule, the natural range of the Man-Eating Plant involves rather more exotic locations. The trackless depths of the HungryJungle and of festering, tangled swamps make of the heart of these plant's traditional range, but various stands and offshoots have been recorded in locations as varied as the GardenOfEvil, the corrupted wastelands of {{Mordor}}, and savage alien worlds. This lineage of carnivorous flora has quite ancient roots as well, and varieties have been encountered as far back as HollywoodPrehistory and still often linger in {{Lost World}}s.

See also: ArtisticLicenseBotany, PlantAliens, PlantMooks, PlantPerson and WhenTreesAttack. Not to be confused with [[Series/WKRPInCincinnati this]] Venus Flytrap or, err, '''[[VaginaDentata THAT]]''' Venus Flytrap. ([[TooMuchInformation Though the latter is the reason for the Venus in Venus flytrap.]]) And also not to be confused with veganism, [[{{Pun}} men eating plants]]. A type of FantasticFlora. Often overlaps with BotanicalAbomination.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* A commercial for the Toyota Echo that advertised its spacious interior had a grocery boy help a lady carry her bags to her vehicle. In the back was a massive Venus Flytrap-type plant that snatched up the boy while the woman looked around slyly to see if there were any witnesses. It can still be found on Youtube thanks to vore fans.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfm_mtXL69A This commercial]] for Cadbury dark chocolate, a young woman is gushing over her new pet to an irritating degree and annoying her friends. She is then [[KarmicDeath eaten by a Venus fly trap,]] which [[SpitOutAShoe spits out one of her shoes.]] Her friends seem pretty happy with her demise.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/CaptainHarlock'': Miime's homeworld was overrun with carnivorous plants, and she's now the LastOfHerKind.
* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Team Touden encounter a patch of these in the second chapter while looking for some much-needed produce, though they aren't exactly ''man-eating'' so much as generically carnivorous -- it's just that they get big enough to swallow a person whole. After Laios saves Marcille from one, he asks [[NightmareFetishist whether being wrapped up by a parasitic plant's vines felt good or not]], much to her horror. They then cook the [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables fruits]] of the plants they defeated into a tart, with a footnote mentioning that different kinds of plants produce different fruit (which they use to lure prey into capture): the digestive types' are juicy and sweet, while the fertilizer types' are dense and full-flavored.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has the giant plant Blossomon, a giant flower with a giant mouth, vines that each have smaller biting flowers, and razor-sharp leaves that can slice through anything, allowing the flowers to be launched like shuriken. Possibly the most tricked-out ManEatingPlant around.
* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatAdventureInTheSouthSeas'' has Nobita and his new friend, Jack, being stranded on a jungle island and attacked by a giant fanged plant. The plant managed to swallow Jack, but Nobita saves him by grabbing a rock and bashing the plant repeatedly until it spits out Jack and retreats. Cue Nobita being relieved Jack is alright... until he saw the {{Cranial Eruption}}s on Jack's head unintentionally caused by him.
* ''Manga/FutabaKunChange'': The school's Gardening Club brings one out to fight in the TournamentArc. For some reason, it seems allergic to Futaba's blood.
* ''Anime/{{Kaiba}}'': The pseudo-titular leviathan is a giant planet-eating plant that behaves rather like a sea serpent. Also, it sucks out its victim's memories, leaving them an empty shell.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': In the manga adaption of ''Chain Of Memories'', BigBad Marluxia, whose ElementalPowers are of the GreenThumb variety, has a couple of these hanging around.
* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'': Inside the dungeon of Zagan, there is a huge plant that eats the humans who are being brought into the dungeon. During her adventure, however, this plant is destroyed by Morgiana.
* ''Anime/MidnightHorrorSchool'': Juno always carries a man-eating plant on her head. When she gets angry or serious, the man-eating plant on her head gets violent.
* ''Literature/TheMysticArchivesOfDantalian'': In the second part of the third episode, Dalian is caring for a rare African cactus in the greenhouse she shares with Huey. The plant blooms every 13 years and wilts after one night. It is later revealed that the cactus is a giant carnivorous plant that uses its book-shaped petals to attract victims and devour them, which [[AssholeVictim the two burglars]] in the episode found out the hard way.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Zetsu is actually a cross between a two-toned human and a plant that eats people corpses, which he uses to cover the tracks of the OddlySmallOrganization he is part of. However, it's worth noting that, while he's [[EnergyAbsorption drained energy]] from the living, all the people he actually ''ate'' were dead, possibly a reference to plants getting nutrients from decomposing bodies.
* ''Manga/NinjaNonsense'' had the main character raising a Venus Flytrap to man-eating size, a fact which she was blissfully unaware of. (When she looked at it, birds alighted on it and sang. When she turned around, it ate the birds.)
* ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'': The protagonists have a run-in with one in the eighth episode. It is, interestingly, ''not'' the standard "giant Venus flytrap" that one would expect from this trope, but a something bearing a distinct resemblance to the mythical Ya-Te-Veo, a tree-like plant topped with a mass of writhing tentacles instead of branches.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** From the sixth movie, we have (Warning: major spoilers ahead) [[spoiler: Lily Carnation. She/it looks like a cute little flower at first, but her/its true form is much more terrifying. Then it absorbs Luffy's crew members and outright becomes a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Neo Exdeath-like]] EldritchAbomination]].
** During the TimeSkip, Usopp ends up trapped on an archipelago that are actually immense carnivorous plants the size of islands that prey on {{Sea Monster}}s. They're so massive, they themselves host forests of smaller (but still huge) man-eating plants and BigCreepyCrawlies on their surface. It's not so bad though, since lots of delicious foodstuffs also grow on them (as bait) and he quickly grows fat (before burning it off later).
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': James has had the dubious honor of owning ''two'' Man-Eating Plants, Victreebel and Carnivine, who [[RunningGag constantly gnaw on his head whenever he sends them into battle]]. Interestingly, this is implied to be how they ''show affection'', and that they aren't trying to eat him. James never really got over losing his Victreebel. There are a few points where a Weepinbell is available during a heist and James wants to catch it.
* ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'': Hime is attacked by one that Sherwood planted in the front yard of her mansion before leaving. Funny enough, Hime literally refers to it as a "Man-Eating Plant".
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'':
** The Lady of the Knoll (manga)/Rubi Toujou (anime) summons an entire army of these. These are referred to by their Japanese trope name, hanabake (lit. "flower monster").
** In the second chapter of Season II, Tsukune and pals are faced with a monster ''durian'', which everyone [[ForeignQueasine except]] [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Tsukune]] thought looked delicious. It (predictably) ended up trying to eat them, but they had the last laugh.
* ''Manga/ShortCuts'': A girl from a distant land wears a flower on her head to eat bad bugs. A man comes up to her and suggests a [[EnjoKosai paid date]], and it eats him. By the next day the flower is gigantic, which she explains by saying that "there are many bad bugs in Tokyo!"
* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': The big flower the Tama-Friends plant and study for a school project in episode 41b slowly consumes them as they approach and stay near it. The gang walk their way around the innards of the plant and try to find a way to get out.
* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'': The Yuuki family has an enormous one planted in the backyard named Celine. Instead of being carnivorous, it's more of a giant pet... that just happens to be a carnivorous plant. For some reason, nobody finds this unusual. When Celine falls ill [[spoiler:(or seems to, at least)]], the cast leave for space to search for the cure. Too bad the cure is on a planet ''entirely populated by Man-Eating Plants''... and [[spoiler:except for the Luckberry Tree,]] none of them are friendly.
* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'': The [[HungryJungle Jungle Planet]] is home to plants that eat ''HumongousMecha''.
%%* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'': Scorponok sent a pair of these against the Autobots at one point.%%A pair of what?
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': Aki Izayoi builds her deck around these, with a plant-based dragon-type Synchro, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Rose_Dragon Black Rose Dragon,]] as her trump card.
%%* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Kurama ''loves'' these, [[spoiler:and they contribute in his fight with Karasu]].%%Loves what? Contribute how?
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* ''Art/TheFutureForest'': Some of the plants are based on the Venus Flytrap (seen [[https://thomasdambo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/carna-610x407.jpg here]]) with sharp, biting teeth and gigantic sizes.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 4 episode 30, a big plant tries to eat Happy S. but misses him, causing its teeth to crack.
* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'': In "Time Machine", a big plant tries to eat Motu. Patlu manages to get the plant to spit him out.
* ''Animation/KungFuWa'': In the first episode, after Tee Yang meets Kung-Fu Sock Master, the first Kwei they find is possesing a big rose with VineTentacles that tries to eat Tee Yang, but is saved by Kung-Fu Sock Master and they deafeat it together.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'': Wolky sets up several in episode 3 for some traps he expects the goats to fall into. Wolky himself ends up the victim of the plants' bites by accident -- and twice, no less.
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** One of the earliest examples is a card called [[https://scryfall.com/card/me1/115/carnivorous-plant Carnivorous Plant]], whose art depicts the traditional fleshy pod with teeth and a tongue variant. It's a 4/5 creature. Given that the average human is 1/1, in game terms that one big freaking plant.[[note]]squirrels are also 1/1, technically -- the scaling system isn't all that linear. Still a pretty big plant.[[/note]] Hell, it could dine on a GiantSpider.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/grn/131/grappling-sundew Grappling Sundew]] depicts a mass of sundew plants growing on the roofs of the CityPlanet of Ravnica, which are large and strong enough to snare a dragon from the sky.
** Phytohydras are a kind of carnivorous plants native to the plane of Ravnica. As their name suggests, they are cross between his trope and HydraProblem -- they have multiple jawed "heads", and regrow two new one for every head destroyed. [[https://scryfall.com/card/rav/218/phytohydra The first one to be printed]] starts out as a 1/1, but hurting it only increases its strength and toughness.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/roe/180/bramblesnap Bramblesnaps]] are a type of Green-aligned {{elemental|Embodiment}}s resembling vaguely humanoid masses of thorny vines with {{Lamprey Mouth}}s ringed by sharp fangs. According to the card's flavor text, they're created by grafting together thirteen different plants that already hunger for meat.
* ''Tabletopgame/YuGiOh'' has [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Man-Eating_Plant two of]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Man_Eater these]] by name and many others. However, most plants in the game are incredibly weak and focus on monster-swarming or swapping. [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gigaplant Gigaplant]] is a straight and powerful example. There's also [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Traptrix_Nepenthes Traptrix Nepenthes]], whose pet or true form is based on the pitcher plant, [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Traptrix_Sera Traptrix Sera]] is based on the sundew plant, and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Traptrix_Tio Traptrix Tio]], whose pet or true form is based on the venus fly trap.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
** The Godplant is one of several carnivorous plants which appeared in an episode of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. It ends up eating the lead hippie-like character which is trying to worship it.
** ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision'': A whole bunch of plants start eating people when an eco-terrorist dumps a bunch of MutagenicGoo in a plant store.
** ''ComicBook/TalesOfTelguuth'': A mage's apprentice is sent by his master to ask a neighboring mage for supplies, but on his way there comes across a field of human heads crying for help, which the other mage harvests for food. The apprentice refuses to believe his words that it is a sentient plant that takes on human appearance to lure in victims and tries to free one of the female heads before he gets eaten. His skin is then recycled by the plant to form a new head.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Poison Ivy plays with this trope. She was once human but is now a mobile, autonomous, sentient and altogether villainous plant. While she may not literally eat human flesh (although [[ImAHumanitarian this has been alluded to on occasion]]), she's certainly a man-eater in every other sense of the word. Her sweat contains pheromones which make her just about irresistible to members of both sexes and her lips secrete botanical toxins which she can and will use with relish to dispatch enemies with a kiss. (Enemies meaning anyone she sees hurting a plant, hears about hurting a plant or suspects may have hurt a plant at some point.) She also has the ability to control plants to a degree in which she can control their growth and cause mutations on the fly, most of which are of the literal Man-Eating variety. If she's not in the mood for a decent snogging, she can always feed her current play-toy to her "babies". ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumLivingHell'' has her admitting to using at least one victim as mulch. Making it deliciously ironic and karmic when one of her "babies" became Harvest, a PlantPerson MindHive of the people she fed to it that [[CreateYourOwnVillain promptly decided to add her to the menu]]. Thanks to Batman and Robin she survived and the monster vanished, but Poison Ivy was left with a fear of plants for a while.
* Creator/MarvelComics: A villain called Plant Man has been known to create these, although he [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain tends to be a joke]]. (And at one point, he himself says that "the old man-eating plant schtick is corny even for a guy calling himself Plant Man!")
* ''ComicBook/TheMaxx'': Though black ''Izs''3 are ambulatory basketball-sized black globs with arms and legs and lots of sharp teeth, they are in fact plants, as they come from Julie's [[DreamLand Outback]], where every native species, including the predatory ones, are plants.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': "Pony-gobbling petunias", as Rarity puts it, are one of the dangers the Mane Six have to deal with while crossing the Forest of Leota in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue1To4 The Return of Queen Chrysalis]]".
%%* ''ComicBook/RedSonja'': Sonja fights one of these in ''Savage Tales'' #5.
* ''ComicBook/RulahJungleGoddess'': In Issue #18, a villainess called Flower Lady attempts to feed Rulah to her man-eating tiger plant. At the end of the story, Flower Lady suffers a KarmicDeath as [[HoistByHerOwnPetard she falls into the tiger plant herself]].
* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': A bitter horticulturist grows "octopus plants" in his basement and green house which he feeds his rival and his rival's daughter to, and which ComicBook/WonderWoman and Steve Trevor rescue the Holliday Girls from.
* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': Papa Smurf accidentally creates a Smurf-eating plant in "The Smurfs and the Howlibird" (and its AnimatedAdaptation), which requires a Smurf to chop at its roots to stop.
* ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'': The first-ever comic book adaptation (by Creator/GoldKeyComics) features a planet where the plants eat animals, to the point of keeping them in enclosures similar to cattle pens. Janice Rand is placed in one of these, and is almost eaten before being rescued.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': Supergirl fights one of these in ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 Supergirl Vol 1]] #3: The Garden of Death!'': a giant, mutant carnivorous plant tries to swallow Kara whole but it quickly spits Supergirl out because it can't bite through her indestructible skin.
* ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'': An issue of the comic book adaptation called "Little Shop of Homers" had Lisa's experiment with a carnivorous plant accidentally splice with Homer's DNA. At first it feeds on donuts but moves on to people after growing a giant green copy of Homer's head.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Creator/CharlesAddams had a group of jungle explorers come across a plant that might be a new species of carnivorous plant. It has one of the explorers halfway eaten.
%%* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': Cleopatra, Morticia Addams' pet African Strangler.
* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': More than one villain has owned a carnivorous plant known as a Muerte Vine. While they can be kept alive with raw meat, they need a living human being every once in a while to really thrive, as Lt. Teevo found out when he was RewardedAsATraitorDeserves at the end of the "Mr. Crime" storyline.
%%* ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'': Don Martin has a hippie running around the park with a "Flower Power" sign.
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had a cartoon featuring a plant called the Venus Kidtrap, a huge tree-like flytrap with downwards-facing jaws and tentacles resembling tire swings hanging underneath. A few hats and baseball bats are also strewn around the base of the plant for a good measure.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/{{Antipodes}}'': While exploring the forest of zap apple trees, Incendia is attacked by a carnivorous plant of the sort consisting of a fanged, mouth-like bulb on a snakelike, moving vine.
-->"What in Celestia's name ''was'' that?" [Tiptoe] said.\\
"I have no idea," Jigsaw said, "but I think we had better get out of here. Even the plants are trying to kill us."
* ''Fanfic/AnythingForFamily'': Cure Marine nearly loses an arm to a giant, hungry Venus flytrap.
* ''Fanfic/TheFlightOfTheAlicorn'': A variant with the honeytrap tree, which grows in the swamps and jungles of the Impenetrable Lands. It doesn't eat things, ''per se''. Rather, it serves as a home for a swarm of flesh-eating insects that rush out to devour whatever disturbs their home, with the tree then drawing nourishments from the decomposing remnants of its hosts' meals. Due to drawing all its energy from this source, it does not photosynthesize.
* ''Fanfic/HeartOfTheForest'': While exploring White Tail Woods, Applejack and Discord come across bushes that use prehensile vines to grab passing creatures, pull them into their branches, and eat them.
* ''Fanfic/TheLegacyOfTheCursedMaskSeries'': ''The Wolf-Demon Crisis'' has demonic grass, a type of plant that impales people and drains them of blood.
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': Episode 11 is all about Zim unleashing genetically-engineered plant monsters to attack the city. Unsurprisingly, they eventually turn on him, and he's forced to [[EnemyMine team up with Dib and his friends]] to destroy them.
* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': The [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/543715/part-3-of-the-palaververse-corva post on Corva]] mentions the death of the Fifth Cormaer, mixed with WhenTreesAttack: "ambushed and devoured by a carnivorous tree".
* ''Fanfic/PokemonClefairyTales'': Leaf and her Pokémon encounter a pack of Bellsprout -- Pokémon resembling animated pitcher plants -- on Route 5 which are more rabid than usual. Leaf suspects the environment being tampered with and a subsequent GaiasVengeance attitude, but Red suspects [[MisplacedRetribution a misplaced defense mechanism against Team Rocket]], which had just invaded Saffron City directly to the south.
* ''Fanfic/SoulEaterTroubledSouls'': The prologue has Maka, Kid, Black Star, and Crona rounding up man-eating plants in Madagascar. They're called Madagascar Trees. It is a case of ShownTheirWork because the term [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eating_tree#The_Madagascar_tree exists]].
* ''Fanfic/StallionsOfHarmonyVerse'': After the characters are blown off a cliff by Nightmare Moon, they encounter a "carnivorous cabbage" that traps and tries to eat them. Shining Armor defeats it by letting himself get eaten and then activating his shield inside of the cabbage, causing it to explode.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27084541/chapters/66133225 Something Wicked This Way Comes]]'': Sulu's section of the Botany lab apparently contains more than one specimen of this variety. Scotty mentions [[NoodleIncident one of the plants ("a wee beastie")that "nearly had the Captain for breakfast last week]] and [=McCoy=], when suggesting another character take a stroll in the Botany gardens to relax, adds a warning to stay away from section twelve, where "[[FluffyTamer our helmsman]] keeps his pets."
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''Animation/CatCity'' features a gigantic, mouse-eating plant in UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest.
* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie'': One of Cobra-La's many bioweapons is an entire field of trees, referred to as "Carno-Trees", which grab enemy soldiers and wrap them up.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' features one big enough to eat both a mammoth and a ''Smilodon''. Buck manages to make it release them after [[RedWireBlueWire defusing it like a bomb]].
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'': The Phlume plant is only seen eating a passing insect, but is otherwise mobile, aggressive, capable of roaring, and quite dangerous in a fight.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': When Twilight drops her device during the second event of the Games, it opens several portals to Equestria (most likely in the Everfree Forest), from which giant carnivorous plants emerge to attack the competitors. One even gobbles down Sugarcoat's bike.
* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'': While fleeing the Skullasaurus, the party gets lost in [[TheHedgeOfThorns a maze of thorny vines]] bearing large, toothy maws. After finding Christopher Robin, [[spoiler:it's shown that [[OnceMoreWithClarity this was merely a large cluster of brambles]], which the gang had mistaken for monstrous plants in their fear and confusion]].
* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'': Kayley nearly gets eaten by a couple of patches of grass that she walks over, though Garrett intervenes before she even notices. Those are the only plants that try to eat anyone. Everything else in the Forbidden Forest either menaces the characters in other ways or isn't a plant.
* ''WesternAnimation/Tarzan2013'': Tarzan and Jane are nearly eaten by a mutated plant when entering the meteorite chasm.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet'': Adele. The Gardener who created her treats her as his pet and affectionately calls her "Adelka" ("Little Adele"). She's seen being fed by lab mice and she has eaten a really big dog. She was created for one purpose only: revenge. [[spoiler:She does eat one person near the climax of the movie, though it's nobody of the intended victims, and it's not her creator either.]]
* ''Literature/AtTheEarthsCore'': A man-eating plant makes a brief appearance, interrupting a fight scene between the hero and an adversary. Even though the two men had been trying to kill each other only minutes before, the hero saves his opponent from the clutches of the carnivorous creeping vine and the two become fast friends, joining forces to defeat the evil Mahars that rule the underground world.
* ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'': Both Aquaman and Orm are in the middle of a forest filled with hostile vegetation, including trees that attempts swallowing them on the spot.
%%* ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'': Yep, ketchup is apparently really bad for you.
* ''Film/Creepshow2'': The animated linking story ends with the main character leading a pack of bullies into an area where he had been secretly planting and growing these for just such a reason, much to the amusement of the creep.
* ''Film/DrTerrorsHouseOfHorrors''. This early anthology from Creator/AmicusProductions contains five short stories that run the gamut of classic movie monster cliches: a werewolf, a vampire, voodoo, a crawling hand, and yes – a killer plant. There is little or no explanation for the vicious vine; it is simply noticed growing around an isolated house. Soon, it is snipping phone lines, strangling a hapless victim, and trapping the survivors in the house -- until they learn that the wicked weed is afraid of fire, enabling them to escape. The final shot, of the vine batting out the flames left behind by the humans, leaves open the question of whether the plant is truly defeated.
* ''Film/TheFreakmaker'': Professor Nolter admires carnivorous plants for possessing attributes of both plants and animals. He has mutated several to giant size and feeds them cats and rabbits. He uses the DNA from a giant Venus flytrap to mutate Tony into a human/Plant hybrid, and later gets eaten by the mutant, whose chest opens up like a flytrap to swallow him.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'': Biollante is a ''{{Kaiju}}-eating'' plant. She's several hundred feet high and has a taste for general destruction as well as flesh, which of course irritates a certain radioactive dinosaur (which she does indeed try to devour at one point). That said, Biollante is actually a peaceful monster and only killed to protect her scientist "father" and to try and stop Godzilla's rampages.
** ''Film/{{Mothra}}'': The Vampire Plant [[VineTentacles uses its vines to constrict prey]] and presumably drinks their blood, and the rather self-explanatory Maneater from ''Film/AllMonstersAttack'', a vaguely humanoid leafy monster that attacks the main character (it only appears in his {{Dream Sequence}}s however).
* ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth2008'' at one point has [[TheHero Trevor]] and [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Hannah]] fight off giant Venus fly traps, which actually look very close to the real thing, but for one difference: they seize their prey using [[VineTentacles prehensile vines]] rather than simply waiting for it to come within reach. Trevor actually gives one an OffhandBackhand as they make a hasty getaway.
* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': One of the jungle perils in TheFilmOfTheBook is a large, rapidly-growing man-eating plant. How big, you ask? At one point it eats a car. The car gets bent in half and pulled out of view; any actual devouring is left unseen. But then there's the scene where Peter is nearly dragged into a large carnivorous flower, and if you compare the size of those creepers based on the ones that later crush the car, then the flower at that point...
* ''Film/{{Konga}}'' features a mad professor who invents some kind of serum that enlarges an ordinary chimp, first into a man-size gorilla and finally into a Kong-size monster. Working on the theory that that was not enough to keep an English audience properly horrified, the film also has the professor growing some sort of mutant Venus Flytrap in his hot house. While Konga runs amok at the climax, one of the professor’s female students has the misfortune of getting her arm trapped--a difficult thing to do, since the carnivorous cauliflower has no tendrils to draw her in. The film cuts away, leaving her fate uncertain but implying that she was devoured. Why she could not simply pull her arm free is unclear. Made even more horrible in the {{Novelization}} where [[MadScientist Professor Decker]] first [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes]] the poor girl, and then Konga knocks her into the plants. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Decker tries to save her]], but all he pulls out is her skeleton.
* ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'': By experimentally cross-breeding plants, a bumbling florist's assistant named Seymour Krelborn accidentally creates a talking plant with hypnotic powers that feeds on human blood. In a neat twist, the movie also features [[{{Pun}} a man EATING a plant]]--[[{{Irony}} one of Mushnik's regulars eats flowers straight from the bouquets]].
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' is a RecursiveAdaptation, a film version of the [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors musical]] based on [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original film]]. Here, Seymour Krelborn is an assistant florist in a struggling flower shop who finds a strange plant (implied to be [[PlantAliens of alien origin]]) which he dubs Audrey II, and which has a mysterious ability to attract customers, but unfortunately demands human blood for food. Compared to the plant in the original movie, Audrey II's personality is greatly expanded, making it a cunning, charismatic manipulator with [[VillainSong a great singing voice]] (supplied by Creator/{{Motown}} legend Levi Stubbs, of the Music/FourTops).
* ''Film/TheLostSkeletonReturnsAgain'': One attacks Lattice, but [[spoiler: Peter Fleming [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself to rescue her]]]].
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* ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeVIReturnOfTheJedi'': The sarlacc is a [[{{kaiju}} massive]] plant-like creature that [[AndIMustScream unnaturally prolongs the life of anything it eats while slowly digesting them for a thousand years]]. It's said to reproduce through spores, and because of their BizarreAlienBiology xenobiologists are [[PlantAliens unsure whether to classify them as plant or animal]] but most lean towards the former.
* ''Film/TheRuins'': The plot heroes become trapped in the titular ruins, which are infested with a man-eating plant that ''grows into your arteries'' when it smells blood. Cue plenty of messy, improvised amateur surgery.
* ''Film/ScaryMovie2'' featured a Man ''Smoking'' Plant: a plant of marijuana grown by Shorty that suddenly becomes a human-sized plant, and rolls Shorty in a joint and smokes him.
* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': The monster in "Bad Seed" is a self-mobile, man-eating pumpkin.
* ''Film/TarzansDesertMystery'': Tarzan is caught by a bizarre man-eating plant with long vines entwining him, but he summons some elephants to free him by pulling the vines off long enough for him to escape.
* In the B-Movie ''Venus Flytrap'', (a.k.a ''Revenge of Dr. X'') a MadScientist unintentionally creates one of these out of a Venus flytrap plant (well duh) who then goes on a rampage.
* ''Film/VoodooIsland''. This low-budget opus offers up Creator/BorisKarloff as a scientist leading an expedition to the titular island. Somewhere during the expedition, anthropologist Claire Winters (Jean Engstrom) goes off on her own and decides it's time for a swim. Never mind that for all she knows the jungle waters might be infested with poisonous snakes, crocodiles, or other predators. Well, she gets far worse than that when she finds herself wrapped up by the tendrils of a prehistoric man-eating plant.
* In ''Film/WhenDinosaursRuledTheEarth'', Sanna becomes trapped by a carnivorous plant, and [[GivingThemTheStrip cuts off a portion of her hair in order to escape]]. As Tara goes looking for Sanna, he finds her hair trapped beneath the plant and assumes she is dead.
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* ''Literature/LoneWolf'': Like [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything else]] in Magnamund, some of the plants Lone Wolf meets try to kill and eat him (not necessarily in that order). The most ridiculous example appears in Book 7, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Castle Death]]''. ''Before'' you even get to the freakin' castle, Lone Wolf might encounter '''''seaweed''''' that tries to kill and eat him!
* ''Literature/SecretAgentGrandma'' involves a secret invasion of alien roses, which can grow fangs and devour humans. The titular "grandma" is an alien imposter tasked with planting them.
* ''Literature/YourePlantFood'', true to it's title, have giant, man-eating plants as recurring enemies in the main route. There's also giant dandelions (which you can grab and float away on), killer roses, paralyzing pollen, acid-spewing vines, and various plant-based hazards.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Though most famous for his detective stories, [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] also had his fair share of strange monster stories. His "The American's Tale" (1879) (which has [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail nothing to do with mice]], by the way) features a Venus Flytrap big enough to hang a man from. Or otherwise cause bodily harm. Ironically, this is said to occur in Arizona, of all places.
* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': While traveling through [[HungryJungle Nyissa]], Garion and company come across a beautiful tree with extremely good-looking and good-smelling fruit. Polgara recognizes it instantly and warns them away from it: it's a carnivorous tree that lures animals (and people) to it with its sweet smell, kills them with its poisonous fruit, then extends tendrils to infiltrate and digest their bodies. The half-Dryad Ce'Nedra says it's even [[TheEmpath empathic to some degree]], and feeds on the fear and pain of its victims as much as on their bodies.
* ''Literature/BewareOfChicken'': The Misty Lake is really more of a swamp, home to spirit plants like the Carnivine, which can grow large enough to eat entire villages if not culled.
* ''Literature/TheCatTrap'': The mouse hero simply eats his way out of a carnivorous flower.
* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': Quite a bit of the vegetation in the Dungeon is just as vicious as the animal life, although it tends to use less direct methods, such as lying in ambush or using mental attacks, instead of a frontal assault with brute force.
-->''Vines string across the tunnel, dangling moss in our faces and the rock walls are barely visible beneath layers of leaves and shrubs. Here and there are truly massive flowers and ferns that sway with the breeze.\\\
Hang on... we're underground. There is no breeze!\\\
The lightbulb goes on in my head just as the many plants and vines start shifting and moving, almost unfolding as they reveal hideous plant mouths laced with razor sharp teeth.''
* ''Literature/ColdfireTrilogy'': A less animalistic version is present in the form of trees that drug and paralyze nearby animals, and then grow tendrils into them and slowly devour them from the inside out.
* ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'': The Vargo Statten {{Novelization}} contains a scene apparently invented wholesale for the book, in which David Reed and Mark Williams are attacked by a man-eating underwater tree in the titular lagoon.
* ''Literature/GregorTheOverlander'': ''Curse of the Warmbloods'' features the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology underground jungle]] of [[Myth/GreekMythology Tantalus]], where almost every plant is deadly in some way.
* ''Literature/TheDarkswordTrilogy'' has the blood-sucking Kij vines. TheFool Simkin initially tells his hungry companions that the vines are edible; only after the plant attacks does he correct himself "they consider ''us'' to be edible. I knew it was something to do with food."
* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'': The eponymous menaces are a kind of exotic plant, resembling three-meter-tall pitcher plants capable of moving by means of three stubby, foot-like roots at the base of their bulbous stems. Their flower-like "heads" conceal long, venomous stingers. They feed by trapping insects in their sticky pitchers and by killing larger animals with their stings, after which they remain rooted near their decomposing carcasses, periodically tearing off pieces of meat with their stingers and dropping them into their bells. They're originally cultivated for industrial purposes due to the oil they produce, but escape into the wild after an abnormal meteor shower blinds most of humanity and become dangerous predators. They're mostly assumed to act on instinct, but display worrying sings of intelligence, such as by herding blind humans into areas where they can be killed more easily.
* ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'': There's a very nasty one that preys on farmers. It looks like a normal plant, until you get too close... and watch the ground open up to reveal jagged teeth and an open maw which essentially drags you in and lets you slide down inside to be eaten... getting torn at the whole time of course.
* ''Literature/TheDemonBreed'' has the (fortunately rare) Harpooneer plant. Don't stand too close to it, or you're ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and then lunch.
* Parodied in the Creator/DrSeuss book ''Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are'', were the {{Narrator}} mentions a forest in France that has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pants-Eating Plants.]]
* ''Literature/DownwardToTheEarth'': A lot of the flora of Belzagor is mobile and carnivorous in some way, including such species as carpets of toothy moss or mobile, noose-like vines.
* ''Literature/EdgarAndEllen'': Subverted. Aggressive, semi-sentient, meat-eating plants do exist, but most aren't big enough to eat anything larger than a pinky finger. Ellen keeps one as a pet of sorts, as does one of the performers in the Heimertz Circus. Note that the one belonging to the circus performer ''is'' big enough to cram a small child inside, but is stated to be incapable of digesting humans.
* ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'': In ''Beyond the Deepwoods'', the first book, the protagonist Twig encounters a man-eating tree called a Bloodoak, which is described as essentially a giant digestive sac surrounded by a woody trunk. A mutualistic symbiotic plant known as the tarryvine snares victims and then drags them to the Bloodoak where they are devoured, complete with rather graphic descriptions.
* ''Literature/{{Fragment}}'': Subverted. The apparent man-eating plants are actually weird animals, they just bear a cursory resemblance to plants.
* John Collier's short story "Green Thoughts", thought to have inspired the original film version of ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors''.
* Violet the psycho plant in the first ''Literature/HIVESeries'' book. 'Her' creator, Nigel Darkdoom, had it put on growth retardants after it tried to eat his finger. Then [[spoiler:the power is cut to the Herbology lab, and she quickly spreads through the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase school]] resulting in a Mass OhCrap for all of the characters]]. 'She' is is only stopped after [[spoiler:Otto triggers a cave-in]].
* ''Literature/{{Hothouse}}'': In the distant future of the Earth, there are very few animal species left, and plants have become mobile and intelligent to varying degrees. As many plants have long since evolved equivalents to nervous and muscular systems of animals, these are more often than not entirely capable of ensnaring and devouring humans, the other surviving animals, and each other. In many cases, they're entirely mobile beings that can actively stalk and subdue their prey. In the ocean, the algae are no less mobile or hungry. Many do not feed on flesh or other plants directly, instead using their prey's rotting tissues fertilize their roots, but others are carnivorous in the more direct sense. The future humans -- themselves tiny and green-skinned -- are on the constant lookout for predatory plants that want to devour them.
* ''Literature/InCryptid'': Swamp bromeliads are giant flowers that can eat mammals as large as a deer, and sometimes prey on humans. Verity and Dominic rescue a boy who's trapped in one when they stop in Buckley. [[AlluringFlowers Their pollen also has a narcotic effect]], which Dominic finds out to his chagrin.
* ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'': The Marching Proprut from ''The Hour of the Gate'' is a mobile mass of plants that eats the ground barren as it ambles through the Swordsward grasslands.
* Creator/JosephPayneBrennan's short story "[[Literature/TheBordersJustBeyond The House on Stillcroft Street]]." A carnivorous ivy takes over plant collector Millward Frander's house, turning poor Millward into a kind of plant zombie (think Creator/StephenKing's "Weeds"/''The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill'' from ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'').
* Creator/DavidDrake often seems to be "phobic" about plants; they won't swallow you whole, but they'll sure suck the nutrients out of you. The vampire honeysuckle in ''The Jungle'' is horrifying.
* ''Literature/KnownSpace'':
** The "Orchid Thing" from Gummidgy -- a planet where [[DeathWorld virtually all the native flora and fauna is as likely to try to attack and/or eat you]]. "Domesticated" ones can be used as decorative houseplants -- as long as nobody sticks their fingers too close.
** Slaver sunflowers are a variation on the theme -- when something flies over them, they use their reflective petals to [[ThePowerOfTheSun scorch it with concentrated sunlight]].
* According to Ponder Stibbons in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', the Sledgehammer Plant of Bhangbhangduc has been know to take the occasional human victim who doesn't see the mallet in the long grass.
* The mostly realistic ''Literature/LifeOfPi'' features [[spoiler: a rather ''un''realistic giant flesh-eating plant that appears to be an island. By day it is dormant and the meerkat-like animals that inhabit it go to drink out of small ponds that form at the "center" of the island-plant. By night, the critters have to clamber up into trees, for the island-plant secretes digestive juices that it uses to eat things with.]] The main character, Pi, discovers [[spoiler: the island is carnivorous when he tries to eat a fruit from a tree on the "island", only to find it had a human tooth inside.]]
* ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' implies that the Huorns (trees that 'wake up' and become more Entish, being capable of movement and malice) ''might'' do this, considering how the Uruk army that entered them didn't come out again, with no traces left -- certainly, Old Man Willow, indicated to be something very much like a Huorn, has a similar method, luring travellers close to and almost absorbing Merry and Pippin.
* The German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' has as a scene [[AfterTheEnd a post-apocalyptic world]] in which almost all animals and plants have mutated into monstrous, giant creatures. And at the beginning of the series also plants are shown, which eat humans.
* ''Literature/MenInBlackTheGreenSalivaBlues'': The antagonists of the book are the Zahurians, a race of mobile PlantAliens, which resemble flowering plum trees and will slice, dice and suck up (through their roots) the remains of any fleshy beast or being they can reach. Naturally, this trait (combined with their refusal to communicate, and thus ''negotiate'', with their would-be prey) makes them one of the most hated races in the galaxy.
* In ''Literature/TheNekropolisArchives'', leech vines are thorny vines which wrap around victims and drain their blood. They particularly love to drain the blood of vampires, who are generally not amused by the irony.
* The [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]] short story "Odd Attachment", while not necessarily about a man-''eating'' plant, is written from the perspective of a lovesick intelligent alien vine who catches a human planetary explorer, that he thinks has fallen from a lucky star, and then plays "[[LovesMeNot she loves me, she loves me not]]" (usually done by pulling petals from a daisy or other flower) by dreamily and thoughtlessly removing the (male) astronaut's various appendages. Including the "odd attachment". The vine does try to eat part of the astronaut's spacesuit, thinking it's peel, but doesn't like it.
* The children's book ''Pearl's Pirates'' features a carnivorous plant from which the heroes rescue a lost child. Subverted somewhat in that all the characters are ''mice'', so it's not really a man-eating plant, and far more realistic (some carnivorous plants in the tropics have been known to get big enough to eat small birds and rodents).
* A common environmental hazard showing up in a fair variety of forms in ''Literature/PerryRhodan'''s various alien natural and artificial jungle settings. How much of an actual threat they present varies, but they're inevitably at least a nuisance.
* ''Literature/ThePlaneteers'': In "The Brain Stealers of Mars", a man-eating Venusian plant [[NoodleIncident is mentioned]] as having almost killed one of the heroes.
* R.G. Macready's short story "The Plant-Thing" involves IntrepidReporter Dick (no last name) being sent to investigate why [[MadScientist reclusive scientist]] Professor Carter is buying up tons of livestock. Turns out he's feeding them all to a giant flesh-eating plant he's been growing. The plant goes rogue and tries to eat Carter, forcing his Malay servant Tala to shoot and kill it to save him while Dick elopes with the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Isobel.
* In "The Sagebrush Kid", a short story in Creator/AnnieProulx's 2008 ''Fine Just the Way It Is'', a childless Wyoming couple transfer their affections first to a piglet, then a chicken, and finally to a sagebrush they fancy to have the appearance of a child. It is tended and protected, and even fed bones and stray scraps of meat from their dinner-table. Even after the couples' passing, the shrub--now grown to the height of a fair-sized tree--is used to human attention, and meat. It consumes livestock, then soldiers, then a local medico, railroad men, surveyors, and most lately a botanist come to investigate its unusual height and luxuriance.
* "Literature/TheScarletCitadel": Literature/ConanTheBarbarian happens on a man-eating vine in his prison and goes to rescue the man.
* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': The carnivorous trees. Unlike most man-eating trees, they hunt by grabbing their victims and draining them of their blood.
* In the ''Seven Kennings'' series, it's taken up to eleven in level of danger. The nation of Forn have a plant named the bantil plant. It's a flower with a maw instead. It grows incredibly fast, it's higly aggressive. Worst parts? The seeds have hooks, grows incredibly fast and can grow by feeding on an host blood. If it wasn't enough, their vines are lined with them, a simple brush spells danger. They are even a danger to those blessed with powers of plants. Even with their immunity, they'll take a bite before they release they "are off-limits".
* In the beginning of Creator/JasperFforde's ''Literature/ShadesOfGrey'', the reader finds the protagonist "wholly immersed within the digestive soup of a [[WhenTreesAttack yateveo tree]]." Of course, this can only be described as a "[[{{Understatement}} frightfully inconvenient]]" state of affairs.
* One of the ''Literature/SolarPons'' stories involved a vine that drained blood.
* In ''Literature/StarlightAndShadows'', Kelpies are a type of seaweed which uses Charm spells to lure in prey and then drowns and consumes them. The Kraken Society has been weaponizing them by planting large numbers of them in the waters surrounding Ruathym.
* According to the ''Literature/StarTrekVulcansSoul'' novels, planet Vulcan has a few of these. Most notable is the ''S'gagerat'', which hide beneath the sand to ensnare prey in their tendrils.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]:
** The Syren Plant of Kashyyyk can take at least two humans (or a human and a wookie) at a time.
** ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'':
*** An alleth sproutling in flicks to sting any hands that touch it, and a computer says that fully grown alleths can eat small rodents. These things are a lot more like Earth's carnivorous plants than is common for this trope. A little later in the same book a much larger plant called the vesuvague is found to be willing and able to [[WhenTreesAttack strangle people with its vines]], but whether that's to eat or otherwise is unknown -- one character says he'd have been plant food if someone hadn't saved him, but no "mouth" is evidenced.
*** Later in the series, on Dagobah there is something called a meat flower, flowers with toothy petals that bite at people. If they've been fed they don't bother unless poked at or disturbed much. The juice from their leaves can soothe the injuries they leave. It's said that there are rare ones out in the swamp, much larger, which can eat people whole rather than just nipping.
* ''Literature/TalesFromTheWhiteHart'': In "The Reluctant Orchid", Hercules Keating is nearly killed by a carnivorous orchid. He then attempts to use the orchid to murder his overbearing aunt, but this does not go according to plan.
* The ''Literature/{{Tunnels}}'' series has the Sweet Traps, plants which knock people out with powerful narcotics and then germinate their spores in their victims' still-living bodies.
* ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'': In ''Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods'', Gregor, Lapblood, and Mange nearly get eaten by plants described as looking like "giant yellow smiles" as they're traveling through the jungle. By the time Ripred rescues them, Mange is already dead.
* The harpoon tree in ''The Venom of Argus'' by Richard Avery (pen name of Edmund Cooper).
* ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr: A Season for Slaughter'' goes into horrific detail on how such a plant (the shambler tree -- actually a mutually-supporting ecology of plant-like creatures and their [[TheSwarm carnivorous tenants]]) could hunt and feed.
* In Creator/ManlyWadeWellman's stories there is the bizarre [[http://www.manlywadewellman.com/Wellbeast.htm Gardinel.]] It ''looks'' like a rundown house, but if you go inside you discover it's actually like a Pitcher Plant, capable of devouring anyone so foolish. In some stories it's implied that the Shonokin, a malevolent part-human race in his stories, can live in them.
* ''Literature/XandriCorelel'': Diver almost gets snatched by a vine with teeth in ''Testing Pandora''.
* The tangle tree in Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels. In the earliest books carnivorous grass and kelp (or algae) show up as well, and are suggested to be common.
* Creator/KameronHurley's ''Literature/WorldbreakerSaga'' features a wide range of these, particularly in the Dhai forests. Examples include the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast blinding tree and the bone tree]]. Some of them are mobile. Other plants can be effectively domesticated and persuaded to not attack the humans who tend them while attacking intruders - so long as they are regularly fed with blood.
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* In ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', Morticia owns an "African strangler" named Cleopatra which appears to be a baby man-eating plant. (In one episode, she says it is only three years old, but in another, she claims to have had it before she married Gomez.) In the cartoon version of the series, she owns full-grown versions of these monsters.
* In ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "Man-Eater of Surrey Green", a man-eating plant from outer space lands in Middle England and takes several top horticulturists as its prisoners in an effort to germinate the Earth. Fortunately for the Earth, Steed just happens to be a herbicidal maniac.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. The killer Martian fungus in Season 6 Episode 5 "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath Seeds of Death]]", and Krynoid in Season 13 Episode 5, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom Seeds of Doom]]". The latter can turn even nice houseplants into vicious killers.
* One of the endlings featured in ''Series/{{Endlings}}'' being studied by Hewes turns out to be one. This carnivorous plant is capable of subduing potential victims by inducing a somnambulant state, so prey is easier to capture and digest. This plant finds humans easiest to entrance, due to their memories being easier to source as illusions for the pacification process
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', [[PlantAliens Zhaan's]] species turn into this when they're starving. In "Home on the Remains" she starts sprouting buds that release pollen which irritates respiratory systems to the point of incapacitation, acting more and more aggressive and less rational, and requires animal protein to reverse that state, even attacking the others at one point. In the end the crew barbecue the other MonsterOfTheWeek for her.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' involved a lonely child, and a sentient, telepathic, hive-minded fungus, which killed people by filling the air with fast-germinating spores (for which the ideal environment to grow was damp, dark and warm... like inside a human body).
* The Death Bottle in ''Series/TheFutureIsWild'' approaches this. It's a carnivorous plant that grows in the desert, and conceals a pit over a meter deep and filled with numerous sharp spikes. Animals wander in and impale themselves. It's not ''quite'' big enough to swallow an adult human, though. (There aren't any humans in the modern sense of the word left to eat anyway, this being 200 million years in the future.)
* In one episode of ''Series/GetSmart'', an undercover Control agent that infiltrated a greenhouse front for a KAOS operation ends up getting devoured by a rare tree that ensnares anyone that touches it. At the end of the episode, after the episode's villain [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard ends up becoming a victim of it as well]], the Chief tells his assistant Laraby to take the plant into custody. When Laraby asks where he should store it, the Chief replies "[[EnragedByIdiocy by your desk]]".
* In the ''Series/ItsAboutTime'' episode "Androcles and Clon", the astronauts are attacked by a man-eating plant in the jungle. The plant attacks them with its vines and tries to pull them into a thicket. Mac and Hector are able to free themselves with a little difficulty.
* One has been featured occasionally as a {{Zonk}} on the current version of ''Series/LetsMakeADeal''.
* Lyekka and her species from ''Series/{{Lexx}}''. Their "pods" contain ambulatory predators who occasionally wake up and emerge to feed, using telepathy and shape-shifting to assume a pleasing appearance and lure in their prey. Neither the pod nor the predator can survive long without the other. They can subsist on any animal life, but prefer "fat and greasy" humans ''by far.'' Oh, and they [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever vary greatly in size...]]
* The Invenusable Flytrap monster from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', which manages to eat four of the Rangers. They get better.
* ''Series/MonsterWarriors'': In "Capital City vs. the Plant Thing", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Capital City is attacked by a killer vine]].
* ''Series/OddSquad'':
** There's one in "A Case of the Sillies" that Oona and Ocean encounter. Oona was lucky that it just got her arm and it succumbed to MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast. It was large enough to eat her whole.
** There is a giant Venus flytrap in the Creature Room at Odd Squad headquarters. Oscar nearly gets eaten by it in "First Day".
* Stephen Badgeworth in the ''Series/{{Pixelface}}'' episode "The Problems of Dr Nigari".
* Max from ''Series/TheThundermans'' gives his sister's Venus Fly Trap growth serum that makes it grow huge, super strong and very hungry.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E21FieldTrip Field Trip]]", Mulder and Scully unwittingly fall into a gigantic underground fungus which acts as a LotusEaterMachine while it digests them.
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* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, in their good old whimsical days, made a delightfully [[EpicRocking epic]] song about a war between humans and murderous plants. The plants are winning. It bears the B-movie-esque title ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Return Of The Giant Hogweed]]''.
* Leaf's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-bVtpIMd4 もぺもぺ (Mope Mope).]] [[DisguisedHorrorStory Don't watch further than 0:46.]] The plants never actually eat anyone, but they sure look like they could.
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* The Bantu (a language family/tribe of sub-Saharan Africa) traditionally believed that gourds and pumpkins could become man-eating monsters [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever the size of houses]].
* One of the earliest man-eating plants is the "man-eating tree of Madagascar", a fearsome entity that was described in 1881 in the ''South Australian Register'', when the newspaper published an account of a "German explorer Carl Liche" who supposedly had eyewitnessed a HumanSacrifice ceremony of the "Mkodo" people in inner Madagascar:
-->''The slender delicate palpi, with the fury of starved serpents, quivered a moment over her head, then as if instinct with demoniac intelligence fastened upon her in sudden coils round and round her neck and arms; then while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wildly to be instantly strangled down again into a gurgling moan, the tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, retracted themselves, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey.''
** While the "eyewitness account" was suspected to be a hoax early on, the man-eating tree still found its believers; in 1924 former Michigan Governor Chase Osborn repeated the legend in a book ''Madagascar, Land of the Man-eating Tree''. However, it has since been confirmed that neither Carl Liche nor the Mkodo ever existed, and that the story was fabricated from scratch. The hoax seems to have been inspired by the first scientific description of carnivorous plants in UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin's book ''Insectivorous Plants'' in 1875.
* Carnivorous trees were also supposed to exist in the Nubian rainforest. They reportedly attracted their prey by various means, such as by killing off all plants surrounding them to gain a "monopoly" on shade and perches, as well as by growing luscious, enticing and irresistible fruit and flowers as extra bait.
* The jungles of Central America were in some accounts home of the man-eating yateveo tree (from the Spanish "ya te veo", "I see you"), consisting of a short trunk topped with a tangle of writhing, snakelike tendrils in constant motion, which would dart out to ensnare and devour passing humans.
* Among the Romani people of the Balkan peninsula, there exist legends of [[http://www.grimerica.ca/the-vampire-pumpkins-of-the-romani/ gourds and melons that drain human blood]].
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'': The Death-Vines of Xiclotl are gigantic carnivorous flowers with VineTentacles and hypnotic pollen that compels those who inhale it to hurl themselves into the pits where they live. If you get caught, you may as well write off the [=PC=], since the chance of them surviving getting ensnared or eaten by one of those things is virtually nil.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': The Blood Oak. Originally created for the comic running in ''The Epitaph'' magazine, it was later given stats and introduced as an abomination in the game. Unusually for this trope, it doesn't have the iconic mouth-parts; it resembles a particularly massive oak tree covered in long, wickedly sharp spines; it eats by clubbing victims with its barbed branches, ripping them to pieces so it can drink the blood after it seeps into the ground.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': There are a number of plantlike monsters that are capable of feeding on humans.
** The most obvious of these is the mantrap, which is -- you guessed it -- a flytrap, appropriately scaled up.
** Yellow musk creepers are aggressively carnivorous plants whose diet consists exclusively of the {{brain|Food}}s of others -- they don't even photosynthesize, and in fact avoid bright light. They don't limit themselves to human prey specifically, however, and will happily go after anything with a developed central nervous system.
** The ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' setting of the 80s and 90s (including the ''AD&D'' 2e and ''D&D'' 3e rules) has the dangerous "vampire rose" plant, flowers with a hypnotic scent that feed by draining blood through their hollow-thorned stalks, a full exsanguination coloring their white blossoms red. A big shock factor, though, is how if these stalks are cut when in use, they spray blood, and the plant releases an ear-piercing scream that can inflict fear on first-time viewers under level 5.
** One of the nastiest carnivorous plants in the game is the viper tree, introduced in the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting. Believed to be the bastard young of Nidhogg, the serpent at the root of Yggdrasil the World Tree, these strange hybrids of demons, reptiles, and plants are literally made of snakes, found in the Lower Planes. Graz'zt's home realm of Azzagrat has a whole forest of them.
** Zuggtmoy, the Demon Queen of Fungus, is a [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Lord]] and is actually [[FungusHumongous more fungus than plant]], but according to her official stats in one source, if any mortal is foolish enough to fight her and gets close enough for her to manage a grapple, she can -- and will -- devour him. In game terms, as the entry describes it, she "engulfs" the victim, shoving him into her womb, where his Constitution is quickly drained by fungal enzymes until he dissolves completely. Clearly, it's a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrid way to die.]] More horrifically, those depraved enough to worship Zuggtmoy and who attain the greatest favor astrally project to her in their sleep, in which they are erotically absorbed into her womb, consumed by her and then recreated in her womb; when they wake, their body has been transformed into a creature of animate fungi, rendering them Plant-type creatures.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'':
** Fang blossoms are flowering vines whose blooms hide fang-lined mouths. Smaller, younger specimens limit their predations to small animals; ones left to grow unchecked eventually become large enough to swallow humans whole.
** Greenmaws are serpentine [[ElementalEmbodiment wood elementals]] with a body like a flexible green vine, a tail branching into a tangle of roots and a head like a Venus flytrap with a sticky tongue like a sundew, and are typically born from shoots or root fragments in the jungles of the East and Southwest. Newborn ones have an overwhelming hunger for meat and will devour any that they find, regardless of whether its owner is living or dead -- they can even heal themselves by gorging on flesh. They eventually grow out of this, though; their tree-sized elders are content to mind their own business in the deep jungle and to let their neighbors mind their own.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'':
** The Dreadstalk from ''GURPS: Creatures of the Night'' likes to kill adventurers and bury their stuff.
** ''GURPS Fantasy Bestiary'' describes several types of carnivorous plants in its Fantastic Plants section.
*** Bloodvines don't eat people as such, but they attempt to grapple any passing person or animal and drain their blood through their hollow thorns.
*** Devilbushes uses tempting berries to lure prey towards them, at which point their victims fall into a disguised pit around the bush and are seized by its mobile roots. Once its prey is secured, the devilbush afflicts it with debilitating sickness [[EmotionEater and feeds on its pain]].
*** Herecine bushes likewise lure victims towards themselves with plump berries and succulent twigs, ensnaring creatures that come to graze on them or harvest their berries and dragging them towards woody jaws in the center of their trunk.
** GURPS Space poses this as one idea for a combination autotroph/consumer in their section on creating various alien species.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'': The Deadly Snaptrap is like a venus flytrap big enough to catch people, and has a "lure organ" in the middle of the trap that often looks like a chunk of gold.
* ''TabletopGame/MyriadSong'': You can play as one. Morphir start out as ordinary carnivorous plants, but if a female plant is fed the [[BrainFood brains]] of sentient animals they produce buds containing the memories of their victim, often smoked as a hallucinogen. And if they eat a sapient brain they become sapient and gain the ability to shapeshift, often using the absorbed memories to impersonate someone they ate.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': ''Pathfinder'' has a huge number of carnivorous plant creatures, some of which were imported from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' alongside a number of originals.
** Alraunes, assassin vines, basidronds, bodythieves, corpse lotuses, crypt flowers, giant flytraps, giant sundews, hangman trees, jack-o-lanterns, jinmenjus, kawa akagos, leaf rays, mire nettles, moonflowers, quickwoods, sargassum fiends, shambling mounds, stranglereeds, tarantula trees, tendriculoses, viper vines, and xtabays are all plants which hunger for flesh, preferably from the player characters. Fungus-like monsters such as cerebric fungus, myceloids, phantom fungus, phycomids, tsaalgrends, vegepygmies and violet fungus also exist, and are no less hungry. There are even more Plant-type monsters than are mentioned here; these are just the ones that are definitely carnivorous.
** Countefloras, aggressive semi-mobile flowers that resemble giant black dandelions, are a notable example in that they do not actually eat other creatures -- they're purely photosynthetic -- but will nonetheless attempt to kill any living thing that comes close to them by beating them to death with their closed flowerheads and by releasing clouds of toxic seeds. This is done in order to fertilize the ground with the rotting bodies of the plants' victims, in order to make it more fertile and ease the sprouting and growth of counteflora seeds.
** It's possible for players to obtain their own friendly man-eating plants by a couple of means:
*** One option is to create a flytrap leshy, a leshy being a small PlantPerson grown from one of a variety of base plants and animated through a magic ritual. Flytrap leshys are grown in swamplands from venus flytraps, whose distinctive traps make up their heads and hands, are much more aggressive than other leshys and greatly enjoy eating meat. Downplayed in that, although they have no problems whatsoever with eating vertebrate meat (including that of fallen foes), they much prefer eating insects when they can. They and other members of the Leshy family were promoted to playable creatures in Pathfinder 2nd edition.
*** Some ambulatory carnivorous plants are also an available choice as "animal" companions for rangers, druids and hunters. Options include two-mouthed snapping flytraps, pitcher-like gulper plants and slithering sundews with two large, sticky traps.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' loves this trope. Even putting aside the plant-like animals (or animal-like plants) of Ganymede the solar system has a lot of man eating plants. Venus has carnivorous bromeliads, Mars has an aggressive desert tree and Ganymede has a true plant that can turn an entire valley into a giant trap.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Awakened plants don't turn carnivorous very often, but some such variants do occur and can be very dangerous.
** The Sangre del Diablo, a mutated variant of a naturally-occurring South American rainforest tree, is a dangerous carnivore that uses magical compulsion to lure its prey to it, at which point it engulfs it with corrosive sap, digests it and absorbs its liquefied remains. They're invasive in the Amazon basin, and when groves form they become entirely barren of animal life.
** Yeteyeos are Central American trees that strangle victims with their snakelike branches are use their corpses as fertilizer.
** South Africa's Dog Eaters use a combination of an enticing, fruity smell and thick, glue-like sap to lure and trap animals.
** Malagasy elephant fruits are trees with very broad, hollow trunks tipped with a cluster of leaves that secrete a honey-like substance. Animals and metahumans trying to get at this bait climb into the tree's trunk, which is very slippery and leads to a pitcher plant-like digestive cavity.
** Violet sleepers are Awakened Venus flytraps native to the Amazon rainforest, and resemble their regular kin in most respects except for being large enough to eat humans.
** Gomorrah apple trees are an unusual variant -- their fruit [[TakenForGranite petrifies]] any creature that eats it, after which the tree's roots grown into the resulting statue and absorb its lingering life force.
** The umdhlebi is an African tree with a slender trunk and branches and a wide, umbrella-like canopy. Creatures coming too close to it, typically in search of shade, quickly suffocate due to the large amounts of carbon dioxide released by the plant; once they pass out, the tree's roots lash out of the earth and drag the victim underground to digest it.
* ''TabletopGame/SmashUp'': One of the expansion factions is Carnivorous Plants. Their defining game mechanic is that they become more powerful on the turn ''after'' they're played, because they need time to grow.
* ''TabletopGame/TheStarsAreFire'': Sentinel trees resemble thorny masses of knotted vines and are mobile, aggressive, and feed on almost any sort of organic matter.
* ''TabletopGame/TheStrange'':
** Thick, hallucination-inducing vegetation seeded by an alien seed overgrows a good part of the planned parklike environment of the World Below of Starship Heinlein, called the Forest of Perfidy. Portions of the vegetation, called sinroots, sometimes animate and hunt heretics and demons living there, or the visiting angels and recursors.
** Prances are insidious mutant flowers in Cataclyst that attract prey with alluring blooms, calming perfume, and a magic aura that promotes well-being. Once prey has been put to sleep, prances emerge for a bloody feeding frenzy.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' has the False Shelter Trees, Mandragores, Mantraps, Scarlet Sporozoids, Serpentvines, and Stranglevines.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Venus mantraps are giant relatives of the common Venus flytrap found in the jungles of the DeathWorld of Catachan. They have traps large enough to engulf a grown man, and can physically grab onto creatures several feet away from them with their vines and leaves in order to drag them into their maws.
** ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'': Kenov III is a DeathWorld dominated by extremely aggressive hybrids of flora and fauna, locked in endless competition and predation. Native lifeforms include pit-blooms, flower-like plants that life flat on the ground to scoop up passers-by and drop them in their underground digestive sacs, and ripper-whips, tree-like organisms topped with clusters of thorned tentacle-vines that tear apart passing creatures to shove into toothy maws near the tops of their trunks.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Bloodsedges are a type of tree that feeds on living animals by grabbing them with its branches and holding them against its trunk, where powerful acids quickly turn it into fertilizer. A copse of these things can devour an entire war party passing through them.
* ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination'': Kelpies are supernatural predators composed of tangled seaweed, and kill prey by entailing prey and drowning or suffocating it.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad'' averts this, though the Venus flytraps are large, growling, omnivorous and aggressive, and are said to have been fed a steady diet of cats.
* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'': Seymour Krelborn, assistant florist in a struggling flower shop, finds a strange plant which he dubs Audrey II, and which has a mysterious ability to attract customers, but unfortunately demands human blood for food. Compared to the plant in the [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors 1960 movie from which this musical was adapted]], Audrey II's personality is greatly expanded, making it a cunning, charismatic manipulator. This musical also establishes that Audrey II is of alien origin, or, in its own words, "a mean green mother from outer space".
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* ''Webcomic/TheBeastLegion'': [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-03-page-31-the-plant-mongrel-2/ The Mongrel plant]] that attacks Xeus is a large, ambulatory plant with muscular limbs and two fanged mouths.
* ''Webcomic/CaptainUfo': The planet Nesea is full of man-eating plants.
* ''Webcomic/TheDementiaOfMagic'': Alex accidentally creates a plant which tries to eat her.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has a particularly nasty one found in Castle Heterodyne, a supercharged [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20101001 Hetrodyne cultivar of Nepenthes dulcis]]. At least [[DieLaughing you'll die happy]].
%%* ''Webcomic/GoldCoinComics'': The killer plants also enjoy downing a cold one after battle.
%%* ''Webcomic/JungleJanet'': These are a staple.
* ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=760-personal-problems Thistle]], a plant-based supervillain, had "man-eating plant research".
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-07-01 In the third book]], Tagon's Toughs run into a stand of "carniflowers" that use tongue-like projections to paralyze prey passing below them and then pull their victims into their mouths for digestion. Later on, it turns out that Nick [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-08-14 believes bug spray will work against carnivorous plants]].
%%* ''Webcomic/VGCats'', in a "Fullmetal Botanist" spoof of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
* ''Webcomic/WorkSucks'' has a plant that menaces Gayle several times, even successfully eating him early on. It appears to have found a solution to its food troubles thanks to delivery boys.
* ''Webcomic/ChoppingBlock'': Butch tried to grow one. All he got from it is confirmation that he's terrible at raising plants.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Website/SCPFoundation:
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-307 SCP-307]] is a species of English Ivy that ensnares warm-blooded animals, liquefies their tissues and quickly drains them dry, leaving only their skin and bones -- and sometimes a tangle of roots spreading from a seed planted in their skull.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-867 SCP-867]] is a parasitic species of spruce tree that injects seeds into any living thing that comes into contact with its needles, which then devour the host from inside-out and grow a new tree out of their remains.
* ''Website/{{Serina}}'': Centipedeweeds and wireweeds are razorgrass descendants from the Hothouse Age adapted for growing on exposed boulders and the stony trunks of cementrees; to make up for the lack of nutrients in these areas, they have adapted to supplement their diet with animal matter. Most get this by snaring small animals with tangles of sharp thorns evolved from their ancestors' sharp silicate-rich leaves, digesting them externally once they die; one particularly large variety, the vampire centipedeweed, has adapted to snag at large herbivores as they move in the cramp confines of cementree forests. Adults can tear themselves free, albeit while leaving blood and skin behind to feed the plant, but calves are likelier to become entangled, die of blood loss and exposure, and be entirely digested.
* ''Podcast/Wolf359'': One of the plotlines for the third episode revolves around Commander Minkowski trying to get someone to pay attention to a weird plant sample that's exhibiting unusually rapid growth in the station's greenhouse. By the time that anyone bothers to actually pay attention to her and see what she's talking about, the plant has not only gotten much larger than a human, it's also grown an eye, teeth, and enough sentience to attack Eiffel on sight. The characters manage to escape from it, but the Space Mutant Plant Monster remains at large and unaccounted for at the end of the episode, becoming a recurring villain for the rest of season 1.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Action Man and Dr. X encounter a huge Venus Flytrap on a deserted island after they crash land there.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfFigaroPho'': In one episode, Figaro raises one. It's a ShoutOut to Audrey II from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', but unlike Audrey, this plant resembles a pitcher plant rather than a Venus flytrap.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': In one episode episode, Genie encounters a huge carnivorous plant in Mozenrath's lair.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' tomatoes are rare food for the frogs as they grow into large carnivorous plants. When Anne and the Planters look for one [[spoiler: they get eaten whole by it, but they were able to make out of by eating it from the inside.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': The I-Am-a-Pod. [[KillAndReplace After eating its victim, it makes a replica of its meal]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Cheryl's family mansion has one of these in its conservatory. Ray kills it in a battle that costs him his right hand.
* ''WesternAnimation/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'': The second season has the titular villainous veggies and the tomato centurions now being capable of chowing down on humans.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Poison Ivy's greenhouse in her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison introductory episode]] has a giant Venus flytrap, complete with tentacles which could grab any passing Batmen and pull them in.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'':
*** Man-eating plants form part of Ra's al Ghul's plan for world domination in "Sidekicks Assemble!".
*** And Poison Ivy tries to feed Batman to one in the teaser to "The Mask of Matches Malone!".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBigKnights'': The aunties of the princesses cultivate man-eating plants.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In "Operation: A.F.L.O.A.T.", the team gets lost in a sea of asparagus while escaping from Stickybeard the candy pirate's ship. Things only get worse when their craft is attacked by a "great white asparagus" that starts hunting them down, and they're saved only when Stickybeard shows up and guns it down.
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': Bushroot is a quasi-example, as he's a duck turned into a plant. However, his powers let him turn any plant into a deadly warrior, particularly his giant venus fly trap, named Spike.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': In the season 2 episode ''Our Bodies, Our Elves'', Elfo, Bean and Wade are attacked by one of these while on their way to the Ogre homeland. Elfo, of all people, is able to fight the plant off and get himself and Bean to safety.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonsTheNineRealms'', the Riders have to deal with carnivorous plants have evolved to prey on ''dragons''.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Brigadier Broccoli's guest chair in "Duckworth's Revolt."
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Turns out there's [[spoiler:one that lures prey in with a fake village and festival]] in "The Town Where Everyone Was Nice!"
* ''WesternAnimation/FlashGordon1979'': These show up a couple of times, most notably when one tries to eat Thun in the opening credits.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome have one of these, along with other monsterous pets. It tries to eat Fred more than once, but fortunately its masters are quick to tell it to heel.
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In one episode, Jon accidentally buys a "meat-eating fern" that tries to devour him, Garfield, and Odie. The man who accidentally sold it to him saves them, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' gets caught in one of these during the end credits.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour'', Pete is caught by a man-eating plant with long whiplike vines, but Godzooky and Brock manage to trick it into letting their friend go by "feeding" it a large rock.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' gives Poison Ivy a talking Audrey II-esque potted plant sidekick named Frank, who is introduced semi-apologetically spitting out the neighbors' remains.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' had a villain named Evilseed, a sentient plant being who despised humanity for "gorging [them]selves on plant life" and sought to destroy them. The minions he could create were some kind of plant/dinosaur hybrid, and later a hydra-esque creature. Fortunately he gets a beatdown from his ancient foe, Moss Man; a more benevolent plant guy.
* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': In one episode, Doctor Claw's scheme involves using a growth serum on plants. His henchman uses it on a Venus flytrap to sic it on Gadget. As usual, Penny and Brain have to rescue him, subduing the creature with knockout gas.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has [[MadScientist Professor Dementor]] make an army of carnivorous plants.
* ''WesternAnimation/LittleShop'', the animated adaptation of ''Little Shop of Horrors''.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'': The Apocazons' main defence in "Apocalypso".
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMagiswords'' has the Carnivorous Plant Magisword, grown by Prohyas from a Magiseed. Its prehensile vines, strength and [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily charming smile]] (all based on Audrey II) keep Prohyas from noticing his Leafy Baby's preferred diet of living creatures until it tries to eat Dolphin Magisword.
* Venus Mc Flytrap of ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' is a carnivorous plant and the school’s ecologist.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'': The chef in Mr. Scatterbrain's restaurant was a man-eating plant. It tried to eat Mr. Grumpy.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]" has a carnivorous plant with prehensile vines, a head-like bulb, teeth, and a leaf for a tongue try to chow down on Neon Lights during the nightmare sequence near the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfBatman'': In the two-part episode "Have an Evil Day", Batman and Robin are transported to Bat-Mite's home planet, and as soon as they arrive Robin is caught by a giant Venus fly-trap like plant, and once again Batman comes to his rescue, though he narrowly avoids becoming plant food himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/OscarAndFriends'': In one episode, Oscar, Doris, and Bugsy are in a greenhouse fulled with giant plants who want to eat them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Hexside School houses one of these in its plant magic homeroom/greenhouse, one that's apparently ticklish as shown when Willow quickly rescues a fellow student it tried to snatch up. Willow later learns to create or summon these plants for combat purposes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pearlie}}'': Pearlie gets swallowed by a self-mobile carnivorous plant in "Prickly Friends".
* ''ComicBook/PlasticMan'': The Weed is a walking, sapient evil plant that can create plant monsters.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' episode "A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn": some ghost evades capture by hiding in Janine’s geranium, latter turning it into a treat for the entire New York city.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood'', Rocket Robin Hood is attacked by several species of man-eating plants, including giant Venus flytraps, when he lands on "The Living Planet", but manages to elude them all only to find himself caught in a deadlier trap (from which he is rescued in the nick of time).
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' story arc "Pottsylvania Creeper" centers around this.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'': One of Dracula's attempts to slow down Scooby and Shaggy involves a man-eating plant. It tries to eat him instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Parodied in one episode: while touring Africa, the family is caught in an enormous man-eating plant. Homer immediately tears his way through it, and when Bart asks him how he did it, he replies: "Psh, it's a ''flower.''"
** Another example from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E22MoeBabyBlues Moe Baby Blues]]", where the Simpsons, while visitng a botanical garden, come across Venus Flytraps. One lures in Homer with a hot dog and manages to clamp onto his head.
* ''WesternAnimation/SkyCommanders'': The first episode has Cutter fall victim to one of these briefly. Fortunately, the others are able to rescue him before he can be digested. After Cutter's rescued, Stryker jokes "If he had eaten his vegetables when he was a kid, they wouldn't be eating him now."
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'', the web-slinging hero is caught by a bizarre man-eating plant in the episode "Neptune's Nosecone", but manages to kill it with a branch off a thorn bush. He does the same in the remake episode "Down to Earth".
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E18MysteryOfAThousandMoons , "Mystery of a Thousand Moons"]]: The plants in the valley where Anakin and Obi-Wan go to get the riksa root. In Jaybo Hood's words:
-->''"Don't touch the vines. [...] Because the plants don't like it, and they have big, sharp teeth."''
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'': In one episode, a meteor falls into a swamp, turning the naturally harmless water lilies into lumbering plant monsters that can turn people and animals into plant-covered zombies whenever they are touched or shoot their seeds at anyone.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': In one episode, Starfire, who is depressed because she is undergoing transformation (which is sort of like puberty to her species) is attacked by a carnivorous plant on an alien planet; but it spits her out. This makes her even more depressed, as she thinks the plant finds her revolting. Later, after a far-more wicked monster threatens to devour her, the other Titans come to her rescue, and the plant appears again, this time preying on the monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Chris has a giant mutant Venus flytrap he named Larry, introduced in the fourth season ''Revenge of the Island'', which gained its immense size, prehensile branches, and mobile roots as a result of the toxic waste that Chris allowed to be dumped around the island. He uses it as an obstacle in a couple of challenges, but also treats it like it was his loyal pet or own child.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToucheTurtleAndDumDum'': Touché and his pal are summoned to vanquish a giant carnivorous plant that escapes from a science laboratory in "Dilly of a Lilly."
* ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'': Audrey II from ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' makes a cameo in one episode.
%%* ''The WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'': The Meatius Chompitii.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'':
** In "The Bounty," one of several [[BountyHunter Bounty Hunters]] that [[GalacticConqueror Lord Hater]] employs to capture Wander and Sylvia is "The Potted Plant," who resembles nothing so much as a large daisy in a pot, [[KillerRabbit but turns out to be one of these]].
** "The Lonely Planet" has the GeniusLoci Janet the Planet, who speaks to Wander and Sylvia through the "mouth" of a rose-like flower growing on her surface. She quickly becomes this when revealing her {{Yandere}} nature.
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* While there's no documented cases of a human falling victim to it, there ''is'' a plant that, rumor has it, "feeds" on things as large as sheep, after a fashion. Though it's a far cry from the typical "Venus Flytrap on steroids" image associated with this trope, the giant bromeliad ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puya_chilensis Puya chilensis]]'' is thought to trap animals that blunder into patches of it with its thick, barbed leaves where they die and decompose, granting extra nutrients to its soil. However, despite what many sensationalist news sites say, ''Puya'' is not a true carnivorous plant because it cannot digest animal tissue, and must wait for it to decompose; it is more accurately called a "proto-carnivorous plant" for this reason.
* As far as true carnivorous plants [[note]]Yes, there is a difference; a "true" carnivorous plant is capable of both trapping and digesting animals, while a proto-carnivorous plant can only trap them[[/note]] go, the ones that can kill the largest prey are [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher_plant pitcher plants]], which are capable of catching small mammals, birds, and lizards. One widely-circulated story from 2011 tells of a man who found a [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022253/Garden-bird-eaten-carnivorous-PLANT--Somerset-wasnt-swallow.html garden songbird]] trapped inside one of his monkey cup pitcher plants. The same article notes that rodents are often victims to these flora.
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