Well dang, this isn't something I ever thought I'd see! Especially considering I'm pretty sure these plants only ever show up in episodes that seemingly don't exist anymore.

Yeah! The one episode they showed up in was lost, but there are a couple recreations and a short cameo in a comic I was able to use as reference.

They also serve a very poor important role in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama Masters of the Earth. The story is about the Sixth Doctor and his recently picked companion Peri, who had been Queen of Krontepp, but wasn't exactly of sound mind when taking on that mantle in that previous story (The Widow's Assassin), finding themselves separated from the Tardis on a Dalek occupied Earth about two or four years before the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara would liberate it from the Daleks. The two travelers in time and space would find themselves embroiled in a Human Resistance plot to overthrow the Daleks, knowing full well they can't really help them succeed without causing a time destroying Time Paradox.

If you have Big Finish website account you can currently buy it at a discounted price alongside the two other Post-Trial of the Time Lord Peri stories until the one minute before midnight of the 12th of June, U.K. Time. It's part of the sale of audio dramas starring Colin Baker to commemorate his birthday.

classic who stuff is always good

Well that's a game over if I ever saw one. :P

Funnily enough, those short-lived Doctor Who episodic point and click adventure games the UK version of the BBC website used to host had an episode where The Eleventh Doctor and Any found themselves in a paradoxical Dalek Invasion of the 1960's. In it, one of the aliens you had to avoid being killed by was, of course, a Varga Plant.

Aye, but they changed the design. Made it a bit more like a generic Venus Fly Trap looking thing