When people think about plants, they often think of the common trees, flowers, and bushes they see every day. Most don’t realize the world has tons of crazy foliage growing all over the place, some of which have the ability to kill any living thing that gets too close.
Who needs Triffids when we already have some otherworldly plants here on Earth?
Find here! 7 Terrifying plants want to kill you, if you are…..!
5Drosera capensis
The drosera capensis, or Cape sundew, is what you get when you cross an octopus with a plant and put its stomach on the outside. Another carnivorous plant, this South African perennial waits until unsuspecting arthropods land on it, which is the signal to chow down. When, say, a butterfly lands on a leaf that is actually covered in sticky tentacles, they wrap around the victim and then begin to digest it right out in the open, in full view of the victim’s family, because this plant likes to have an audience, apparently. Its appetite is so voracious that it cannot be contained to one country.
In 2001, the Cape sundew went on a food run to New Zealand, where it’s considered an invasive species, according to the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. It truly is an alien plant.
