These killer plants are found in various form all over the world. As you can see from the You Tube clip below, they do eat mammals, just like Audrey from Little Shop. It's actually a little horrifying, in that anything that falls into one of these guys is slowly digested alive! Common meals for many of these plants include mice, rats frogs, and bats.
As can be seen below, unlike the Water Wheel Plant below, these weird plant critters can be grown at home pretty easily. They also have a much wider natural distribution around the world and have one of the largest families in the carnivorous plant world---i.e.: there's bunch of different types of them, and they are everywhere! In actuality they don't have come from the same genus or even family; they are called "pitcher plants" because of their similar shape. I know of one, for example that in unique to the Okefenokee Swamp that specializes in eating bees.
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| From the swamp |
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