#eastern skunk cabbage

[greycatbird]

Her arrival? Long-awaited. Her location? Swampy. Her look? Stunning. Her smell? Indescribable. She generates her own heat she can melt through ice she's bisexual she's one of temperate eastern North America's weirdest plants she's SKUNK CABBAGE✨️

[botanyshitposts]

i think i'm just really attracted to photosynthetic alien-looking organisms with slightly ominous vibes. starting my botany love in high school with the eastern skunk cabbage was indicative of what i was to become i guess

[los-plantalones]

It’s that time, y’all. Time to commune with the hot stink babies 🥬

[vandaliatraveler]

Early March on the Mon River Trail.

Sunday was a gorgeous day for a bike ride, balmy and softly lit by the late Winter sun. The smooth alder (Alnus serrulata) is in bloom along the river - the catkins are incredibly beautiful to me. More whimsical are the pointy-capped flowers of the eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), which emerge from the muddy margins of local swamps in mid-February. At mile marker 17 (last photo from the bottom), I spotted my first bald eagle of the season - a mature, solitary bird who got away before I could get my camera positioned. I'll try again next weekend.

[spatheandspadix]

Hangin out with the boyz

[organicmatter]

Mamaceqtaw tattooing tool, early 20th century This wood handled tool with metal tines lashed to the tip was made and used by Mamaceqtaw (Menominee) people in what is now Wisconsin during the early 20th century. Today it is in the collection of a museum as part of a larger toolkit that also includes charcoal used as a base for tattoo ink, and a ceramic sherd used as a surface for mixing and holding pigment. One historical account notes that Mamaceqtaw tattoo pigment included “bear gal,” a mixture of birch bark charcoal and roots of skunk cabbage, deer’s ear, red top, and others plants.

Archaeological research from elsewhere in eastern North America has shown that bone points were used for tattooing before the introduction of metal needles, while traditional knowledge also recalls use of fish teeth, thorns, porcupine quills, and flint. By the time this tool was used, tattooing among the Mamaceqtaw was primarily medicinal, and used for treating muscle and joint pains and headaches. reposting from Aaron Deter-Wolf (Tennessee Division of Archeology)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words related to Spring

to include in your next poem/story

Bloodroot - a plant (Sanguinaria canadensis) of the poppy family having a red root and sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring.

Bluebonnet - either of two low-growing annual lupines (Lupinus subcarnosus or L. texensis) of Texas with silky foliage and blue flowers.

Coltsfoot - a perennial composite herb (Tussilago farfara) with yellow flower heads appearing before the leaves.

Crocus - any of a genus (Crocus) of herbs of the iris family developing from corms and having solitary long-tubed flowers and slender linear leaves.

Magnolia - any of a genus (Magnolia of the family Magnoliaceae, the magnolia family) of American and Asian shrubs and trees with entire evergreen or deciduous leaves and usually showy white, yellow, rose, or purple flowers usually appearing in early spring.

Morel - any of several edible fungi (genus Morchella, especially M. esculenta) having a conical cap with a highly pitted surface.

Mourning cloak - a blackish-brown nymphalid butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) that has a broad yellow border on the wings and is found in temperate parts of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Skunk cabbage - any of several early-blooming perennial herbs of the arum family that occur in shaded, wet to swampy areas and have a fetid odor suggestive of a skunk.

Spring peeper - a small brown tree frog (Pseudacris crucifer synonym Hyla crucifer) of the eastern U.S. and Canada that has a shrill piping call and breeds in ponds and streams in the spring. They are often just called peepers start singing on some of the earliest warm spring nights, ushering in the season with an evocative chorus. While they are highly successful in permanent ponds, they also utilize temporary, ephemeral ponds that appear briefly in the spring due to rain and snowmelt.

Tulip - any of a genus (Tulipa) of Eurasian bulbous herbs of the lily family that have linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and are widely grown for their showy flowers.

If any of these words make it into your poem/story, please tag me. Or leave a link in the replies. I'd love to read them!

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[crowcalled]

Tumblr's mature content meltdown has resulted in the following showing up as flagged for me:

- A photo of a Siamese cat lying on a sofa

- A video of a cat kneading a pillow

- A video of a woman dressed as Lego Darth Maul

- A pen drawing of a woman (fully clothed) and a cat

- A Japanese ivory carving of a seal

- A photo of a large African toad

- A gifset of Zack Fair Final Fantasy enthusiastically doing squats

- A gifset of a pro wrestler walking around the ring

- A photo of eastern skunk cabbage in full bloom

Thanks, tumblr, it was really important to blur these out! I feel so safe.

[newhampshireofficial]

It may not look like it, but you are looking at our first native flower of the year, The Skunk Cabbage!

Skunk cabbage, (Symplocarpus foetidus) is a species of Arum native to North-Eastern North America. It grows in wetlands, and it is able to emerge early because of its ability to generate heat up to 30-60 degrees above Farenheit. It exudes a fowl smelling odor and it is colored red in order to mimic rotten meat, because it is pollenated by insects that emerge early in the year.

Our smelly friends are wishing us a happy spring

[plantparenthood]

my second batch of ceramics. Trout lily/bloodroot vase, eastern skunk cabbage/snow trillium vase, heron/fish cup, and a lot of small charms, some of which I’ll be selling/trading/giving away I’m sure! I definitely had spring on my mind.

[intosnarkness]

Behold the field in which I grow my cronch

Affectionately named “crochies” by the two dweebs who live in my house, symplocarpus foetidus, or Eastern Skunk Cabbage, grows all over our woods.

They smell, and are pollinated by flies. They have weird red-brown flowers and medicinal properties, including use by some native tribes as an expectorant.

But my favorite things about these weird, seemingly boring guys is that they’re thermogenic. They use a form of cellular respiration to create heat that thaws the ground around them and lets them be some of the first blooms every winter.

Nat and I have several paths through the woods that we have named for easy communication- punishment hill is very steep, phantoon because it is mid-mid, zoop pond is where you find the green herons, bridge and back means going to the bridge and back. But my favorite is the cronch fields. The fields where we grow our cronch. Very rarely barren.

[rustbeltjessie]

Petrifying Springs Park:

White Trout Lily

Cutleaf Toothwort

Some bees I filmed from a respectful distance, which, as near as I could figure, were Leafcutter Bees. (This was based on what they looked like, as well as the fact that there were leaves nearby with circles punctured out of them.)

A rock with kitty cats drawn on it.

Eastern Skunk Cabbage

fallen tree

Bloodroot

Wood Anemone + one Buttercup

(Kenosha County, WI // April 28)

[botanyshitposts]

Hi, I need to write a seminar for my Applied Botany class and have no inspiration. What's the weirdest plant you can think of off the top of your head (which is hopefully an Angiosperm)? Sources welcome if you have the time but I can hunt them down on my own.

ok i was gonna instinctively say a gnetophyte but instead i'll go the closest i can get to a gnetophyte without leaving the angiosperms: Amborella trichopoda. but if you want to do an all time classic friend of this blog you could do Symplocarpus foetidus, the eastern skunk cabbage, which might be easier to research tbh and has tons of charisma, OR you could do one that's really cool in theory but recently has been more up in the air, Boquila trifoliolata, the plant that allegedly can see-- the truth is that we know for sure it mimics the leaves of plants around it, but we don't know for sure how yet, and there's been some controversy about the last big paper published about it in 2021, which claimed it had proved definitively that the plants did mimicry through 'sight'. still very cool though, and the extra attention clearly doesn't hurt in terms of figuring out how it actually works.

[los-plantalones]

check out these hot stinks

[korrasamibottles]

Using iNaturalist like a dating app except to find hot Eastern Skunk Cabbage near me

[somelonelywordmonger]

I LOVE SKUNK CABBAGE! It is the plant of my childhood. The smell of my childhood. While other kids sniffed glue, I'd go out in the winter and spring to get "high" off skunk cabbage. And then it would overtake the stream and brook in my childhood woods come summer. THE BEST EASTERN COAST PLANT. Well, one of them, anyway.

BIG SKUNKZ