2 stinky plants!

[nepenthes gracilis]

Smelly smelly!

S. foetidus (skunk cabbage)

F. imperialis Rubra

 

[larry]

Oooh, cool. Always wanted a skunk cabbage!

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Might have one if my seed sprout!

 

[Gawd_oOo]

I just saw tons of skunk cabbage on my hike last week. Kewlist thing about them imho is how they produce heat that melts snow around them. One site said they can hold a 60-70 degree temp even when they are covered in snow.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Yes thats true! Mine came up a little later this year, but the truth how they generate the heat is, they use stored starch in their roots from the previous growing season to initiate the inflorescence and generate the heat. Early to bed, early to rise for the skunk cabbage!

Did you hike through a swamp?

 

[TheAlphaWolf]

wow an endothermic plant? that's creepy!

 

[Treaqum]

Skunk cabbage my favorite. Can't wait to move somewhere where I can grow it.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Alphawolf...I think u mean exothermic hehe

Tre, thought it would be native where you live.

 

[Flip_Side_the_Pint]

nice

How smelly is it? lol

Also where do you have these growing?

 

[TheAlphaWolf]

Quote[/b] ]Alphawolf...I think u mean exothermic hehe

nope, I meant endothermic.
youu know... like animals that generate their own heat
Maybe you were thinking in chemistry terms?

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Jess, the Fritillaria is growing out front in the main flower bed and the Symplocarpus is growing in the backyard under a pine tree where it is always moist and mossy.

Alpha, really? I never really knew that was the term for generating heat. Yes I am thinking from Chem class

An endothermic reaction takes in energy and an exothermic releases energy...would have that that would have applied to the Symplocarpus because of the bio chemical reaction between the starch to produce heat, therefore it should be exothermic.

 

[Gawd_oOo]

Quote[/b] (nepenthes gracilis @ April 23 2005,8:47)]Did you hike through a swamp?

Well, it wasn't really a swamp. More of a lowland forest.
But I'll throw on my hip boots and go swamping.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Yah that sounds like prime Symplocarpus habitat. Theres a hugh wet swampy forest where we turkey hunt in the spring and the skunk cabbage is all over there, I just wish I could find the green dragon (A> dracontium) there

 

[Treaqum]

Nope. I live in NE Florida (southern fringe of zone 8). We can't grow anything here. No bulbs, no snow-loving plants, only poppies & pansy's in winter.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

ah thats to bad, but good for Nepenthes!

 

[LauraZ5]

Here's a very stinky plant-
The Carrion Plant (Smilax ecirrhata)

And yes... it smells distinctly like rotting flesh. Special! We should all have a few of these in our gardens!