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unusual facts about skunk cabbage


Watershed Park

Skunk cabbage and salmon berries grow alongside Moxlie Creek, which weaves throughout the area.


Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden

Small waterfalls run down the rock gardens into a pond which is surrounded by royal ferns, marsh marigolds, skunk cabbage, Gunnera ("giant rhubarb") and irises.

Tachopteryx thoreyi

The gray petaltail lives in highlands, woodlands, and deciduous forests with permanent seeps, often indicated by the presence of skunk cabbage and ferns.


see also

Lysichiton camtschatcensis

Lysichiton camtschatcensis, common name Asian skunk cabbage or white skunk cabbage, is a plant found in swamps and wet woods, along streams and in other wet areas of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and northern Japan.