Talk:Man-eating plant

"ya te veo"
Doesn't ya te veo mean "I WILL see you"?

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 09:18, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * No, "I will see you" is "Te veré" or "Te voy a ver". Pfhreak (talk) 22:19, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

It means "I see you now", "I already see you" or "Now I see you".--190.31.15.84 (talk) 18:07, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The confusion is probably because we Spanish-speakers some times use improperly the present tense as it was future tense. Againme (talk) 15:12, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Snake descending from the branches?
Could this be explained by a boa of some sort that descended from trees and consume a full grown man? I would think that to a primitive tribe a snake descending from a tree would look as if the tree itself was using it's tentacle to grasp a passer-by.

-G

Except it was the european "explorer", Carl Liche, that made these claims and NOT anyone from the "primitive tribe"??!?

-HPAS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.115.24.17 (talk) 02:48, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Picture
The picture may be attributed to Central America, but the men and the weapons say "Africa" to me. CFLeon 23:05, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Life of Pi reference anyone? Ǔ⅔Ǒíǣ

And then there's the "Tree Scene" from Evil Dead *winces* Nagyss 02:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Legendary?
Given the late discovery date, that at least one is known to be a hoax, and there's no sources for the Duñak, this appears to be purely cryptid, not legendary/mythical in any way. Pfhreak (talk) 22:36, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Hoax
I think the Dr Liche hoax needs furtehr clarification.

Carnivorous_plant appears to have sources--ZayZayEM (talk) 02:34, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Duñak wiki hoax
The section on the Duñak is a hoax. There is no such myth, and no record of the name used in this context exist which predate this Wikipedia entry. Well done Wikipedia for successfully managing to go over 15 months without spotting it. Yet another top quality article from Wikipedia. 118.210.183.27 (talk) 09:55, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Nubian Tree
From "The Man-eating Tree" by Philip Stewart Robinson: "Before committing this paper to the ridicule of the Great Mediocre—for many, I fear, will be inclined to regard this story as incredible—I would venture on the expression of an opinion regarding credulity, which I do not remember to have met before. It is this. Placing supreme Wisdom and supreme Unwisdom at the two extremes, and myself in the exact mean between them, I am surprised to find that whether I travel towards the one extreme or the other, the credulity of those I meet increases. To put it as a paradox—whether a man be foolisher or wiser than I am, he is more credulous. I make this remark to point out to those of the Great Mediocre whose notice it may have escaped, that credulity is not of itself shameful or contemptible, and that it depends upon the manner rather than the matter of their belief, whether they gravitate towards the sage or the reverse way. According, therefore, to the incredibility found in the following, the reader may measure, as pleases him, his wisdom or his unwisdom. —Z. ORIEL" This is clearly literature, from an author that wrote humour. He even wrote it as his uncle "Zechariah Oriel" writing about his uncle, "Peregrine Oriel." --tronvillain (talk) 20:44, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

"Cannibalistic tree" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Cannibalistic tree. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 21 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Talk 02:45, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 2 June 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 02:26, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Man-eating tree → Man-eating plant – "Man-eating plant" is the WP:COMMONNAME, as demonstrated by Google Ngrams. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:16, 2 June 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per article (trees are only one of many different plants mentioned on the page). Good find and thanks for nomming this. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:09, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 16:27, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Ngrams show convincingly that "man-eating plant" is the common name. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 19:06, 2 June 2022 (UTC)