Oh no!! The Botanical Gardens is under siege by an abundance of mutated, flesh-eating plants! Join us and Gutter Pop Comic Store during Mutation Invasion: Flesh-eating Flora for a chance to shop for some awesome sci-fi comics while being a part of one yourself! On this special day, you’ll also get the chance to meet the comic artist behind the story of Mutation Invasion, Nate Phillips. Shop for Mutation Invasion merchandise, talk with the artist and get your merchandise signed, and take home some cool comics from Gutter Pop! 

Carnivorous plants from the permanent collection such as venus flytraps, sundews, and pitcher plants as well as some other creepy plants will be on display along with a marvelous collection of bug-snatching sculptures created by local artist, Melanie Fisher. Visitors will not only learn more about these shocking and interesting plants, but they will be taken on an exciting, and action-packed adventure with the help of a plot-twisting comic strip created by local Buffalo artist, Nate Phillips. Through the exhibit, follow the exciting vintage-inspired comic-book story of Mutation Invasion: Flesh-eating Flora featuring a series of large storyboard posters and get an up-close look at a variety of carnivorous plants. It shares the story of how our carnivorous plants have mutated into even bigger and scarier flesh-eating flora that put the Botanical Gardens’ horticulturists and pollinators at risk of being eaten alive! 

Larger-than-life sculptures, hungry plants, and an adventure of a lifetime all wrapped into one exhibition! Visitors will also learn more about carnivorous plants and how convergent evolution is the reason behind the existence of these “natural-born killers.”