TRIFFIDS
When I first started explaining about this some people started smiling at me some got astonished some said don't say bedtime stories.This is a MOST TERRIFIC PLANT! TRIFFIDS are carnivorous plants which eats humans.They grow taller than a man, most specifically I should say is that they could 'walk'. When they don't get sufficient water to survive they could walk to some extent in search of water. The name was originally spelled trifid and pronounced "TRY-fid". The name means three-lobed, referring to the three root/legs.Fid comes from the Latin -fidus meaning divided. They are mostly found in Europe, they grow upto 10feet, they can walk like normal human and they are really dangerous. In tropical areas they grow faster and they use their long sting to poison human body and they feast on human body. There were many reported cases of Triffid attacks in and around Europe and Russia in the late 1940s. It was mainly cultivated for it's oil and later on it became to menance to people. It's sting causes death within few minutes. In 1951, John Wyndham a British novelist wrote a novel named "The Day of the Triffids" this novel depicts about triffids and how they attacked people, Simon Clark in 2001 wrote "Night of triffids" this is another sci-fi novel about triffids. I don't know still triffids exist, some people say it's just a imaginary plant which comes in sci-fi novels some people say triffids really exist, in 2009 a BBC series on triffids was broadcasted. I was trying to find out where these triffids came from, no one knows where it came from some people say it was from Russia. Once there was some research on some seeds in a lab in the district of Elovsk in Kamchatka. Some people tried to stole those seeds in a plane, their plane was destroyed and seeds spread all over the places and started expanding it's growth. No one know where the plant is or they really exist but on hearing about this everybody would have got nightmares. I think after reading this you are planning to plant a TRIFFID in your garden..right?! ;-)NIVEDH. S KUMAR
