Ravenous Octuporean Reincarnis

(8"x8") This rare beauty's name is the Ravenous Octuporean Reincarnis (ROR) Ravenous because, while being very generous to other plants, to its own kind it is deadly. The long tendrils it grows to support its venomous, sticky, spiky supplementary flowers swing with vigor when in the general proximity of another ROR. The supplementary flowers tear and pluck each of the purple shielding petals off the main stock until the orange photosynthesis-receptive inner leaves are bare of protection and quickly die off either from exposure or being consumed by the predator ROR. You see, these plants grow extremely slow. This full grown ROR is about 76 years old with the signature eight production pods, yet only a handful of fully grown supplementary leaves with their spikes exposed (these leaves take much more time to develop than the production pods over the remainder of its lifespan). It could have gotten there faster had there been more prey ROR relatives to consume around it. The orange inner leaves are full of energy that if the predator ROR stuffs other prey RORs' potent leaves into its own pouches, the leaves will eventually decay and leave that energy for the predator ROR to absorb thus accelerating the growth process. These plants are very rare for a few reasons. One, they are difficult for us to grow by choice due to their very particular climate being where little oxygen is up on the tops of steep mountains. Two, if they do wind up growing near each other, they will soon (relative to their lifespan) be devoured and ravaged by each other. Lastly, because they take so long to reproduce. At the end of their life cycle, they produce a single seed in their own withering wake to produce another ROR. While these RORs are almost entirely ravenous towards its own kind, there have been two recorded cases where the tendrils of neighboring RORs have slowly grown together, intertwined and shared energy to theoretically expedite their growth rate. The subsequent offspring process of two RORs intertwining has never been recorded but some speculate this would generate more than two offspring seeds; perhaps an entirely separate subspecies of the Ravenous Octuporean Reincarnis.