Man-Eating Tree of Mindanao

The Man-Eating Tree of Mindanao is the appellation for a cryptobotanical carnivorous plant that was reported to exist on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, the subject of two similar accounts: the first, a 1925 story in American Weekly, the report of W.C. Bryant, a Mississippian planter; and the second, a 1927 newspaper story by Muriel E. Eddy relating perilous encounter of Mrs. Leoda Eddison and Sambino, her Moro guide, with the "death-dealing cannibal tree."

Dramatis Personae

 * W. C. Bryant, a Mississippian planter;
 * Mrs. Leoda Eddison, a widowed explorer;
 * Sambino, a Moro guide;
 * Muriel E. Eddy, writer and memoirist of H. P. Lovecraft.