A strange plant

“It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here”—that one’s own little time and place is beyond cataclysms. And now it was happening here.” 

― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids.

We seem to have aTriffid flourishing on the kitchen window cill. Best to evacuate!