 Item No. 1001 Level 2 Restricted Containment Class Euclid Disruption Class Blam Risk Class Danger Special Containment Procedures SCP-1001 is to be kept at BioSight 103 in a greenhouse reinforced as per Danger's Organisms Protocol 12A. It is to remain rooted in the soil core, 9m diameter, by 4m deep, in which it was removed from the site of discovery. It is to be watered and fertilized sporadically, as detailed in Document 1001-2. No object capable of producing hazardous sound, sonic weaponry, audio-based memetic effects, high decibel infrasound, etc. is permitted within hearing distance of BioSight 103. The object is to be fed 20kg of Nutritional Supplement 1001-8 once monthly. The precise formula for Nutritional Supplement 1001-8 is detailed in Document 1001-2. But it bears repeating that the supplement's protein content is not to be less than 40% by mass, and that all protein is to derive from pigs, dogs, or comparably intelligent species. These guidelines may be altered if necessary when testing requires that SCP-1001 be hungry. Bones, horns, and other hard tissues are never to be provided except as part of duly supervised tests. All tests involving provision of hard tissue are to be pre-approved by both Dr. Glastonberry and the current Security Director of Site-103. Description SCP-1001 is a single plant apparently belonging to an undescribed species of Velvitsia. Unlike other Velvitsia species, it has a tree-like trunk which broadens into a woody taproot 180cm wide and 5m long, 2m of which protrudes above the surface. Also unique to SCP-1001 are its leaves, which are up to 6m long, lined with barred prickles, and capable of secreting a sticky, pitch-like resin, and which are capable of motion with considerable dexterity and strength. SCP-1001 is geographically disjunct from its known relatives, having been found in the Andean high desert, near ████████ Peru. SCP-1001's trunk and taproot are hollow, opening to a rounded aperture at its apex and filled with a highly caustic solution of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes, comparable to those found in the pictures of the Pente's SPP. This solution is capable of reducing 50kg of soft animal tissue to a thin slurry within 20 minutes of submersion. While it is capable of photosynthesis, SCP-1001's leaves are singularly inefficient, producing only approximately 50% of the plant's caloric requirements. Likewise, its roots are unusually ineffective at uptake of organic and mineral nutrients. To mitigate this deficiency, SCP-1001 is an obligate carnivore that uses its prehensile leaves to capture passing prey and pull it into the central cavity where it is digested. SCP-1001's intelligence is highly debatable. Its basic hunting tactics resemble those of perillictus SPP, blounders. It buries as long as leaves in the sand and waits for a sufficiently large animal, at least 40kg to pass by, whereupon it emerges suddenly and captures the passing prey. When this tactic does not produce results sufficiently quickly, however, SCP-1001 resorts to sophisticated audio mimicry. It is capable of reproducing literally any sound it has ever been exposed to, as well as recombining known sounds in the novel phrases. It has been observed using the latter capacity to lure a human prey, speaking in the voices of other humans known to the prey subject. Its means of sound production are unknown. Also interesting are SCP-1001's prey preferences. It prefers to consume intelligent animals, especially those capable of tool use or of building artificial structures. Humans are always its preferred prey, but in their absence it has accepted primates, dogs, parrots, pigs, beavers, ants, and nest-building birds. Note that many of these species fall well below its usual size threshold. Some to such a degree that capturing and digesting them produces a net energy loss. Its method of detecting intelligence is unknown, but apparently not based on experience, since it has attacked squid and small dolphins with eagerness comparable to its attacks on humans and Andean monkeys. SCP-1001 is incapable of digesting hard tissues completely. The bones of its prey are gradually excreted through channels near the top edges of the caudex. Once excreted, these bones are invariably picked up by one of the object's leaves and moved to a location on or beneath the soil surface surrounding SCP-1001. The object arranges the bones in complex patterns, which are demonstratively useless for water capture and, being primarily subterranean, do not aid in attracting prey. The resemblance to the ████████████████████████ and the devotional mandalas of SCP-█████████ have led Dr. Glastonbury to hypothesize that there may be representational or even ██████ anomalous effects. At the time it was discovered by the SCP Foundation in 18██, SCP-1001 was located at the center of a roughly circular bone pattern, 18 meters in diameter and 8 meters deep. 7% of which was composed of human bone. by Native tribes profess religious fear of the object, and we're providing it with regular human sacrifices. The sacrificial ritual, as finely divulged to Foundation interrogators, required attendant priests to escort the sacrifice toward SCP-1001 along a strictly delineated avenue, later found to correspond closely to certain features of the subterranean bone pattern. Persons from the pattern were said to be punished by capture and consumption of the attendants as well as the sacrifice, but a successful ritual resulted in only one person being taken. In rare cases, a priest would be directed to move a particular bone to positions just outside the object's reach. Correct placement would be rewarded either with an unspecified gift or a longer reprieve before the next required sacrifice. All histories state the ritual to have been originally demanded by the tree itself. Spoken the voice of our ███████.