SOURCE: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (2005) .

DESCRIPTION: "It sprang to life at once; long, prickly, bramble-like vines flew out of the top and whipped through the air. One tangled itself in Hermione's hair and Ron beat it back with a pair of secateurs; Harry succeeded in trapping a couple of vines and knotting them together; a hole opened in the middle of all the tentacle-like branches; Hermione plunged her arm bravely into the hole, which closed like a trap around her elbow; Harry and Ron tugged and wrenched at the vines, forcing the hole to open again and Hermione snatched germ free, clutching in her fingers a pod just like Neville's. At once, the prickly vines shot back inside and the gnarled stump sat there looking like an innocently dead lump of wood." (Harry Potter and the Order of the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling)

NOTES: The Sixth-Year students at Hogwarts learn in Herbology class about the Snargaluff plant and its grapefruit-sized pods which are pierced to reveal their green wormy insides.

HISTORY: More monster plants from Madame Sproutt. See also Venemous Tentacula and Devil's Snare.

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