Large, carnivorous, intelligent, purple flowers with tentacles. They are able to launch their seeds with enough force to reach space, and subsequently land upon distant worlds throughout the galaxy.
In the RPG...
With a name like "Death-Vines", you'd expect that these creatures were pretty deadly... and they actually are. The tentacles themselves can crush a victim with an average of 10 damage, or simply feed them alive directly to the blossom, which exudes a corrosive enzyme. It is said that a victim can break free by winning an opposed STR or DEX roll, but even against the lower DEX and average person only has a 27% chance. While not specified, I imagine they would still then need to somehow neutralise the acid on their skin.
One other trait of the Death-Vines is that they have a hypnotic pollen that, upon a failed opposed POW roll, disorients a target enough to give them two Penalty Dice on all actions for 4-9 rounds. There's a 73% chance of an average person suffering these effects.
The 7e Malleus Monstrorum has decreased the Death-Vine's STR, CON, and SIZ, as well as decreasing the range of INT. It has also changed them from being completely immobile, to having a Move of 2.
In a video game...
Death-Vines of Xiclotl seem like pretty interesting enemies, so I would definitely include them somehow.
In a film...
I think they're interesting enough to be used as a horror movie monster.
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