The seeds were spread across the globe when a plane smuggling them out of Russia was shot down during the Cold War. In the 1981 TV series, the triffids were the creation of real-life Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko. The 1962 film adaptation portrays them as extraterrestrial lifeforms transported to Earth by comets, contradicting the novel. Had they been evolved anywhere but in the region they were, we should doubtless have had a well-documented ancestry for them. is that they were the outcome of a series of ingenious biological meddlings-and very likely accidental, at that. The main character, Bill Masen speculates as follows: In the novel, the origin of the triffid species is never explained. The word "triffid" has become a common reference in British English to describe large, invasive or menacing-looking plants. The triffid is a fictional tall, mobile, carnivorous plant species, created by John Wyndham in his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, which has since been adapted for film and television. A triffid drawn by its creator, John Wyndham
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