text: "The Sagebrush Kid" (2008) by Annie Proulx (a short story in Fine Just the Way It Is) features a sagebrush which grows to consume animals and humans after being "raised" and fed by a childless Wyoming couple.
  Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron (2012) by Jasper Fforde features a carnivorous yateveo tree. A "Peril Infoganda" video was released via YouTube to promote the novel, titled "How Not To Be Eaten By a Yateveo"  The yateveo lore returned in the 2024 sequel, Red Side Story. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J. K. Rowling, included a constrictor plant, known as "Devil's Snare" which entangles and crushes anything that exhibits movement within reach of its tendrils.  Devil's Snare apparently does not consume its prey, as on at least one occasion the victim is discovered still whole after being killed by the plant.
  The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham, features as central antagonists the eponymous Triffid, a carnivorous plant capable of locomotion, that catches and eats people.
  The Hunger of Septopus (Septopus er Khide) by Satyajit Ray features a carnivorous plant with seven trunks and a mouth, that is indigenous to Nicaragua and was brought back and eventually nurtured in Kolkata.
  The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, published 2001, includes a carnivorous tree on a floating island.