Carnivorous Plants

Aside from insectivorous plants, such as the pitcher plant or venus fly-trap, there have been made claims of shrubs and trees that eat animals the size of birds, humans, and even larger animals besides. The following index is a sampling of such alleged plant-forms, both purely fictive and of claimed reality.

De Plantis Qui Carne Vescuntur

Name	Meaning	Origin	Continent	Region	Area	First reported
Crinoida Dajeeana	Scientific naming, based on "Crinoid lilystone" and Dr. Bhawoo Dajee, friend of the storied discoverer, Karl Leche	New York World	Africa	East	Madagascar	1874
Yateveo	Spanish, "I already see you"	Buel's Sea and Land (1887)	South America	Guiana Highlands	Venezuela, Guyana	1887
La Sagenas de Diable	Spanish, "the Devil's Snare"; a.k.a. "Vampire Vine"	New Orleans newspapers	Central America	Nicaragua	Lake Nicaragua	1889
Arbor Diaboli	Latin, "Devil Tree"	St. Louis Globe-Democrat	North America	Mexico	Sierra Madre Occidental	1889
Magnetic Saguaro Cactus	-	Florence Tribune	North America	Arizona	Pinal County	1899
Death Flower of El Banoor	-	-	-	South Pacific	"El Banoor"	1903
Man-Eating Tree of Mindanao	-	American Weekly	Asia, Southeast	Philippines	Mindanao	1925

Reading

• Prior, Sophia (1939), Carnivorous Plants and "The Man-Eating Tree", Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, https://archive.org/details/carnivorousplant23prio