Karnivorous Killer Kale!

Yes I Know It Should Be "C"
Except it's funnier with a "K".  Quite what you might be expecting - Art?

Audrey

     Well, you're not getting either that or the triffid, so put your tongue back in.  I used kale because it begins with "K", which I can do under the terms of poetic licence.  What I was going to touch on were plants that are, really and truly, carnivorous.  I hinted at this in my link, so here we have the Pitcher Plant.  Art?

As pretty as a - no, I can't bring myself to say it

     These pitchers secrete nectar that attracts insects - and an occasional unwary mouse - which then fall into the pitcher, where they get DIGESTED!!!  And the inner surfaces have a waxy sheen to prevent traction, and downward-pointing hairs to make sure that dinner can't simply walk out of it.  These plants have evolved thus in order to acquire more nutrition than is available in their poor soils.

Kale.  Hardly a threat, is it?

The Triffids
No!  Not the plant.  Conrad vaguely knew of an Aussie rock band of this name, and so he went a-looking for them.  I found them. Art?

Fine upstanding young people

     They were around in the Eighties, and appear to have been very highly thought of, so after pounding out these words of - excuse me - Words Of Wonder - I might head over to Youtube to sample them.

Wonderwoman's Land, No Man's Land And Dead Man's Land
The latter is a novel by Robert Ryan - no, not the actor - and the title appealed to your morbidly-obsessed militaristic maven (that's me, by the way), so I plucked it from the charity shop shelves.  Imagine my surprise to see that the protagonist is none other than Doctor John Watson - yes, that Doctor Watson - who is determined to serve his country in the First Unpleasantness.  Art?

My edition

     It combines a murder mystery and the First Unpleasantness.  Now, if Mr Ryan can only write a sequel that includes zombies and Annette Peacock, I'll be happy.

Doctor Who - "The Lie Of The Land"
Ah now, there's a cunning pun hidden there.  I have only just watched last night's episode, because last night the television was being used to watch some flash-in-the-pan nonsense called "Britain's Got Talent".
     I live in Britain, by the way.  So the above does kind of make sense.  Although I'd be more interested to see a Ruffian version, as those blokes are all mad.
     Where was - oh, yes, DW.  Because some of you may not have seen it yet I won't post any spoilers, except to say that Bill redeems herself.  She ruddy well had to, what with mucking things up last week by opening the door to the Monks.

<sigh>  No, Art

     We also find out what's in that Great Big Mysterious Vault, and it's not Lord Lucan.

"The Girl With All The Gifts"
I suppose you could call the fungal infection that 

SPOILER ALERT!  DON'T SAY YOU WEREN'T WARNED!  BECAUSE YOU WERE!


ends the world in both novel and film to be a variety of killer plant.  Certainly the second and third stage evolution of the fungus look like plants.
     Mr Carey, who wrote the novel, hasn't exactly ruled out a sequel, although he points out that TGWATG ends in such a way that a sequel would be a completely different beast.

A corker of a film

Further Of Killer Kale
Some overhead shots in the film version of TGWATG were taken in Chernobyl, by drone cameras, because that way you can get realistic shots of a city gone completely and literally to seed without having to pile on the CGI budget.

Kinda like this

     "What does that have to do with anything?" I hear you quibble.
     Because, in the 1981 television series "The Day Of The Triffids", Bill relates one of his trips into London; erosion and lack of maintenance caused a building to collapse simply due to the vibrations caused by his truck passing by.  There's a nicely-processed photograph of a London gone back to nature - Art?

Pretty certain they had to paint that greenery on

     So, not exactly killer kale, but getting there.
     Which is where we came in.  Chin chin!