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Join us for a tour of the plants and fungi that have evolved some spooky adaptations, many of which have inspired horror films, myths, and legends.

Plants that walk, flowers that smell of rotting flesh, carnivorous flora, and fungi that penetrate insects to consume their insides…

Join us for a tour of the plants and fungi that have evolved some spooky adaptations, many of which have inspired horror films, myths, and legends. You’ll get up close to plants that feature in films like Day of the Triffids, journey into our Fungarium basement collection to see parasitic mushrooms, and face an eerie glasshouse of crawling cacti.

Led by authors of Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror.