Imagine an obscene plant growth, as well as a cone, truncated, very thick and shaped like pineapple.
From an opening, a sort of mouth from its upper part, long leaves appeared like tendrils about 8 meters long that hung to the base of this strange plant creature, each of its leaves ended in a sharp point and covered with thorns in Shape hooks.
Inside the cone, from which the leaves sprouted, was a viscous liquid with a penetrating, soporific odor inside a small opening.
Beneath the edges, where dozens of green flies and other insects flew, a series of long hairs and follicles spread out in all directions.
On these about 6 giant palos of dark green color.
But perhaps the most impressive and repulsive was how and that nourished that unusual specimen of flora in Madagascar.
The Carl Liche. A German explorer who had gone to the island of Madagascar, visiting a primitive tribe called Mkodos. He was there, in order to study a giant flower that was near the lake Alaotra, it was when priginaba when the head of the tribe told him that not very far from there existed a type of strange and dangerous tree that all the members Of the tribe he feared and respected.
It was so vivid the description that Liche, persus gave to the leader of the tribe who will show him the tree.
When the explorer found himself in front of the unusual plant specimen he could not believe it, since he surpassed all expectation.
Suddenly, after a crying session of prayers to this sinister tree, the natives surrounded one of the women of their tribe and forced it with their spears to climb their trunk, until at last it stood on its summit, surrounded by Its tentacle dancing like snakes everywhere. The natives told the condemned woman to drink, so she bent down and drank the molasses-like liquid that filled the tree's highest plate, and went mad with hysterical frenzy. But she had no intention of jumping toward him. tree...
Liche would report later ...
"As I saw the bases of these great leaves pressing more closely toward each other, great currents of the viscous fluid resembling the melita mingled horribly with the victim's blood and exanting viscera. Seeing this the savage hordes of the tribe that surrounded me, they screamed madly, leap forward, clustered on the tree, pressed it, leaves, hands and tongues obtained enough liquors to send it mad and frantic.
An indescribably frightening orgy, never to see such a spectacle again. "The retracted leaves of the great tree stood upright for ten days, and when I arrived one morning they were again bowed, palpets floating and nothing but a white skull at the foot of the tree to remember the sacrifice that had taken place there."
I will never forget the agony of the woman, for my blood froze ...
Is it possible that there exists in Madagascar a monstrous carnivorous tree as described by Carl Liche?
The truth is that something with these characteristics does not exist in botanical treatises. But it is also necessary to take into account that this great island of primitive characteristics both in its flora and fauna after separating from the African continent at the beginning of the Mesozoic era conserved its original characteristics almost intact.