skunk cabbage

Brian Whyer brian.whyer@btinternet.com
Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:50:57 PST
> Can anybody help me to find Symplocarpus foetidus seeds or seedlings
please?

>   > When I saw where L. vernum was growing in the wild in the Czech
>   > Republic, I knew why they never survived for me.  It was in the same
>   > squelchy conditions where I would expect our native Lysichiton
>   > americanus.

As the new member Marilyn will find out, you learn something new quite often
on this list.
I had not realised, or maybe just forgotten, that Symplocarpus was also
called skunk cabbage. I am used to the yellow
http://theroyallandscape.co.uk/thegarden/…
bc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished and white forms of
Lysichiton, which also grows at Saville garden not far from my home. I
always think it looks more like a giant cos lettuce.

Brian Whyer, Buckinghamshire, England, zone ~8?
Where the magnolias are breaking, many weeks early



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