Man-eating tree from Madagascar can entrap a human in its branches and then gradually consume it.
An artist’s sketch of man-eating tree in accordance with account of traveller Karl Liche (by Ales Kresal)
The man-eating tree grows deep in the dry spiny bush of the southern part of isle.
Carnivorous plant The Venus Flytrap (Dionaea) catches and digests the insect by quick closeing its leaf blade.
Carnivorous plant pitcher (Nepenthes) catches its pray to the pitcher filled with liquid, which disolves the body.
Realy, carnivorous pitcher plants grow in Southern part of Madagascar.
Biggest carnivorous pitcher plant (Nephentes) can trap only smallest rodents or lizards as its biggest pray.
Sharp hooks of capsules from “tree with claws” (Harpagophytum grandidieri) can cause painful hurt.
Who sit to sleep under shrub lumbiru (Cryptostegia madagascariensis) to rest, allegedly will never wake up.
In Madagascar there are more the killer trees, which poison by its vaper even human.
The natives showed to us kumanga tree which is so poisonous that it can kill even on a long distance.
Finally we see dangerous “devil tree” kumanga
The leafs of kumanga are very poisonous.
Natives get rid of their dangerous “neighbour” by the fire. Trees are endemic and only few of them remain.
