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Historia Naturalis Mythica #18: The Ya-te-veo

The ya-te-veo was a carnivorous tree reported from Central America and Africa in the 1880s, with tentacle-like branches that seized victims and absorbed their fluids. No specimen was ever produced.
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A nineteenth-century illustration of the ya-te-veo, depicting a short-trunked tree with long, whip-like branches reaching outward and downward toward a human figure standing at its base.

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