What If You Were Trapped in a Meat-Eating Plant?

Nature has many lethal predators that would love to eat you. Most of these are animals. But what about plants? Well, there's one plant that thrives in boggy areas and has a taste for insects, The Venus Flytrap. So what would happen, if a giant one trapped you? Could you survive? How long would it take to be fully consumed? Do Venus Flytraps actually like the taste of humans?

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