Predatory plants

While Spring is a time of beautiful blossoms and wild flowers, there are also strange stories about blood thirsty plants, that drink blood and devour animals. Many of these evil man-eating plants are found in fictional horror stories, but also come from folklore. Some reported as cryptids. 

There is the Madagascar Tree, that was described by Karl Leche on his travels. He said that the Mkodo tribe in Madagascar performed human ritualistic sacrifices. What was also quite weird and very disturbing was a tree, with snakelike palp, wrapped around a human victim and strangled to death. There was also a book about the horrible tree by Chase Osborn, a former Governor of Michigan. Scientist Willy Otto Oscar Ley wrote that the tree and the Mkodo tribe don't exist at all. 

A Vampire plant was said to exist in the Mexican region of Chiapas, discovered by Byron de Prorok. He described the plant as enormous in size that was known to kill birds. Dr. Karl Shuker believed that it might be possible to have really happened as there were also sightings of another, the Mexican Snake-tree, a cryptid plant and appears in Aztec myth. Another horror is in South America, the Bird Eating Tree, believed to grow in Brazil. It produces sweet tasting juicy berries and catches small prey that goes to eat the fruits. 

Here is a page about Scary Plants and Botanical Horrors found on Atlas Obscura.

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