This Phallic-Looking Object Is Indeed A Real Plant Growing In the Philippines And Cambodia (Pics & Video)

In March 2019, images of a plant dubbed 'penis flytrap' went viral. The name was a play on words that evokes the plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), the name of which could, in turn, be an oblique reference to it's resemblance to human female genitalia. Here's what the Venus flytrap looks like, to start with. Now let's go back to the phallic-looking one. The plant belongs to the Nepenthes genus and is found in the Philippines.