Man-eating plants are a motif of plants used throughout the Jungle Cruise franchise.
Description[]
Man-eating plants refers to carnivorous plants fully capable of eating humans. The carnivorous plants studied by Dr. Leonard Moss had flower-lures between jaw-like appendages barbed with tooth-like, "Trigger hairs". The plant was documented as being able/willing to eat beetle, fish, beef, and potentially cola and chicken. It may have been capable of moving on its own.
History[]
Development history[]
Marc Davis designed a man-eating plant to appear the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise in 1968.[1] The plant would have been somewhat anthropomorphic and burped while surrounded by human skeletons. In 2021, some man-eating plants were installed with the reimagining of the trapped safari scene.
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Giant carnivorous fly-traps appear trapped in a cage, strapped to the back of Dr. Leonard Moss in the African veldt. Later, a man-eating plant is shown on the Mekong Maiden, being eaten by a chimpanzee. Caged plants belonging to Moss also appear in the Amazon River Base and boathouse in the Lost Delta, including one empty cage and cages surrounded by human bones.[2] Moss' journal appears outside the Amazon base, identifying them as, "Carnivorous Plants" with various notes and illustrations on them.
In Disneyland, carnivorous used to be referenced as being shown off by the Jungle Botanical Society in a show titled, "The Secrets of Life".
Skipper Society[]
Dr. Moss' illustrations of the man-eating plant appear on a wall.
In other media[]
Paraphernalia[]
Jungle Cruise Adventure Game[]
Carnivorous vines are one of the obstacles in this board-game.
Trivia[]
- The design of the plants added to the Jungle Cruise in 2021 resemble the killer plant Audrey II from Frank Oz's 1986 musical horror-comedy film Little Shop of Horrors, namely the singing buds which Audrey II grows in the climax.
- While describing his pitch for the man-eating plant, Marc Davis referenced his unused design having predated the film.
- A monster plant appears in the Jungle Cruise film in the form of Gonzalo, a cursed conquistador serving Lope de Aguirre.
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