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IF YOU FEEL silly dressing in costume for Halloween but still get a kick out of the holiday, why not invest in some creepy greenery that’s as anthropomorphic, carnivorous or eerie as anything Poe conjured? The fang-like Venus flytrap, indigenous to the bogs outside Wilmington, N.C., is only the start.

“There’s a huge, diverse world of beauty, form and life that most of us never really see,” said Byron Martin, whose grandfather founded Logee’s, a Connecticut retail greenhouse that specializes in rare plants, in 1892.