Blossomkiller

''A tangled mass of roots, tendrils, and vines is interspersed with a handful of broad, open blooms. The flowers' stamens are tightly clustered with spines, resembling pincushions, and the leaves are bright yellow.''

Combat
The blossomkiller plant is unintelligent, responding simply to the stimulus of its vine network and firing its quills at the target in response. Although they are easy to recognize once identified, they are dangerous once alerted, and a larger plant poses a considerable threat, simply due to the amount of poisonous quills it can fire each round.

Once its target is immobilized by the poison, the plant's tendrils seek out the slumbering victim and proceed to grapple and crush him to death. The plant will also use its tendrils in self-defense if pressed, but in doing so it reveals its only method of killing its prey.

With the victim slain, the plant becomes quiescent once more and simply waits for nature to take its course, its roots leeching whatever nutrients they can from the victim's body. Small, nimble scavengers often take advantage of this period to snatch morsels of carrion from under the blossomkiller's very blooms.

Description
The blossomkiller is a creeping plant whose flowers fire quills bearing a paralytic poison. Once its victim is immobilized, the plant's tendrils crush its prey to death, allowing the exposed roots to leech nourishment from the decomposing body.

Growing in a sprawling mass, the blossomkiller thrives where there is a steady passage of animal life, as the plant is unable to move itself (beyond the creeping motions of its vines). An intricate system of interlocking vines branches out from the plant's roots and weaves itself throughout the plant's bed. This network operates much like a spiderweb, for it is touch-sensitive and alerts the plant to the presence of movement.

As soon as prey (or a potential threat) is detected, some or all of the plant's flowers will fire poisonous quills at the target. Those without help who fall unconscious due to the poison's effects seldom survive the blossomkiller's crushing Strength.

A blossomkiller plant can grow to 12 feet across, although specimens more than three times that size have been reported in the deeper jungles.