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Skunk Cabbage Skunk cabbage is an exothermic plant; by generating its own heat, the plant is able to melt snow in able to grow earlier than other plants around it. It is named skunk cabbage because of its pungent odor. It is pollinated by flies.
SKUNK CABBAGE is limited in Nova Scotia to Yarmouth, Shelburne, and Digby counties, where it favours boggy alder thickets and roadside ditches. Elsewhere in Nova Scotia, the climate is marginally too cold to support the plant.
Botanical Description: Odiferous perennial, height to 150 cm. Large elliptical to lance-shaped leaves, net-veined, thin, tapering to short stout stalks up to 1.5 m long by .5 m wide. Numerous green-yellow flowers on thick fleshy spike, hooded by large bright-yellow bract.
PUBLISHED PAPER RELATING TO CABBAGE Davey JC and Nevison I. 1999. Selection of close controls in cabbage distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) trials using similarity coefficients. In: Taxonomy of cultivated plants, Third International Symposium, Edinburgh, 20-26 July 1998.
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