The man-eating tree of Madagascar was only the first hoax of its type. Newspapers planted a forest of tree-monster stories in the years that followed. Botanist Sophia Prior considered several of these sensational tales in her 1939 book Carnivorous Plants and “the Man-Eating Tree.” She explained that these monsters were inspired by smaller real carnivorous plants:
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