Tell me what you think of this?

Question

do you think theirs a possiblity no chance whatsoever does this scare you does it interest you tell me what you think of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_tree

Answer 1

I have come across this earlier as I have grown carnivorous plants. Idea is fascinating and I bet anybody who has observed venus fly trap or drosera in action has wondered if there could be plants that are dangerous to us, too. But  man eating plants do not exist.

Theoretically it would be possible for plant to digest very big animals - if plant had some fast-acting poison so that animal would be paralyzed/killed instantly and left lying near/on the plant, it could wrap its leaves around animal and slowly digest it drosera style . Plants can contain very strong poisons, like strychnine - with the mechanism like venus fly trap and some sort of thorns to inject the poison (like the stinging nettle) plant actually could kill a person very quickly.

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It would require quite special circumstances for such thing  to evolve. Properties do not just appear out of nowhere - there must be some selection pressure for it.