Man-eating Tree

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Man-eating tree
Man-eating tree, as their name suggests, are carnivorous plants popular among Cryptozoologists as cryptids or mythical tree big enough to kill and consume human or other large creatures.
The largest known Carnivorous plants known to exist in the real world is probably the Nepenthes rajah, a Pitcher plant with almost 40 cm tall Pitcher and with volume up to 4 liters.

Many popular fantasy works cited about the existence of Man-eating trees in their literature.

Edmund Spencer in 1874 fabricated an article about the discovery of Man-eating trees in Madagascar. The article was published on 26 April 1874 in the New York World and was repeatedly published to gain popularity. The article was about a letter written by a German explorer Carl Liche (1881) in the form of a report of encountering a man-eating tree to whom the Mkodo tribe of Madagascar was sacrificing a woman. Other newspapers and magazines tried to catch the race by reprinting the article, however, after 14 years the Journal of Current Literature revealed the article as a literary hoax done by the reporter Edmund Spencer.


Though Current Literature revealed Man-eating trees of Madagascar to be a fictional thing, it failed to wipe out the entire idea about the existence of such trees. In fact, it became the biggest hoaxes of the 19th century. Madagascar was no more an ordinary place but rumored as the Land of Man-eating trees.

Chase Salmon Osborn, an explorer and a former governor of Michigan, in 1924 published a book about facts, myths, and legends of Madagascar titled as Madagascar: Land of the Man-Eating Tree.

The myth of Man-eating trees isn’t confined to one place only but there were many stories of the existence of such trees beyond the boundaries of Madagascar. The Ya-te-veo tree found in Africa and Central America is claimed to have serpent-like arms and is believed to eat large insects, but even attempts to capture humans.
Cow-eating trees are popular inside the boundaries of India. One incident has been reported about one carnivorous tree trying to consume a cow in Padrame, a village in the Uppinangady Forest range of India.

Man-eating tree or Madagascar tree, popular as cryptids on the lands of Madagascar, is a carnivorous tree known to kill and consume humans.

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