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Eastern skunk cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus

Symplocarpe chou-puant

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Dietary

Raw the plant is toxic sometimes mortal.
Early settlers and Native Americans ate the young leaves boiled in 2 or 3 different waters, they also consumed the dried and roasted rhizome ground into flour.

Wildlife

Black Bear loves to eat the young leaves of the plant.
Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Eastern skunk cabbage : 1- Flower
Eastern skunk cabbage : 2- Flower
Eastern skunk cabbage : 3- Flowers
Eastern skunk cabbage : 4- Flower
Eastern skunk cabbage : 5- Plant with developing leaves
Eastern skunk cabbage : 6- Young leaves plants colony
Eastern skunk cabbage : 7- Leaves at full size
Eastern skunk cabbage : 8- Green fruit
Eastern skunk cabbage : 9- Fruit
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