Man-Eating Trees

Man-Eating Trees are carnivorous trees found across the world, most commonly in the Southern Hemisphere in continents like Africa and South America. Whereas most typical carnivorous plants consume small insects or mamalls (such as Venus Flytraps or Pitcher plants), that happen across them, these trees are actively predatory and can consume the blood or even flesh of much larger animals, including humans.

The Genus of all mean-eating plants is Sanguithyesti, and there are several species with various differences and similarities.

Although these trees have carnivorous intent and prehensile branches, vines, and/or roots, the Warehouse/Regents have not deemed any species sapient.

Origin
Given the unique nature of these artifacts and their widespread distribution, it is currently unknown how they all came into existence.

Collection
Given the dangerous nature of these artifacts and how rare they are to find, the Warehouse does not assume it has collected specimins of all species, let alone all instances of species it knows of.

Whenever an instance is recorded, the Warehouse dispatches teams of four members or more with extensive protection and equipment to prevent casualties. If a tree is too dangerous to collect, or multiple attempts have failed, Regents have deemed it appropriate to destroy or otherwise permanently contain the trees to avoid casualties of innocent people, Agents, or further uncontrolled reproduction.

Handling and Storage
Whenever a tree is succesfully collected, the Warehouse will additionally look for further instances of the same tree to allow those collected to be able to reproduced in the controlled environment of the Warehouse to avoid letting the species die out.

All instances of carnivorous trees are to be kept in individual glass containers that extend several feet above the treetop and below the extent of the roots. All cases are made with glass infused with Neutralizer and are several inches thick to avoid Agent casualties.

Species

 * Sanguithyesti mkodii (The Madagascar Tree)
 * Sanguithyesti suavifolium (The Nubian Tree)
 * Sanguithyesti diabolivinea (The Vampire Vine)

Trivia

 * The Genus name Sanguithyesti is derived from the Latin word "sanguis" (blood) and the Greek figure Thyestes, who was tricked into eating the flesh of his own children (and enjoyed doing so).