Publishing Company Blog: Why are there no real-life triffids?

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Given the way evolution happened, starting with the very simplest form of plant life, why is there a rigid split between animals and plant life, with no sort of halfway house as in, say, John Wyndham’s (fictional) The Day of the Triffids?

Peter Hanson, Exeter