Reports of carnivorous and supernatural trees are scattered throughout the travelogues and journals of adventurers and explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries, yet most are so outlandish that even the most believing would have difficulty accepting that a triffid-like monstrosity hides in the jungles of the world's most remote locations. However, could there be something to these tales? Could contemporary researchers really have stumbled upon such strange wonders of nature?
We discuss these reports of supernatural botanica before heading off into reports of parallel reality shifts, time travel, and the potential presence of a secret genius that sparked the Enlightenment.
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