[pbs] skunk cabbage
Brian Whyer
brian.whyer at btinternet.com
Fri Mar 2 12:50:57 EST 2007
> 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://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/thegarden/The+Savill+Garden+Gallery.htm?w
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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