Is it sad that I eagerly welcome the first skunk cabbage flowers of the year as the true beginning of spring? Most people are not enamored with skunk cabbage. The plants themselves look a bit like swamp hostas. The actual flowers are just tiny yellowish white globes inside the strange leaves shown above. It is supposed to smell like a skunk if you damage the leaves, but as I've never tried that I'm not sure that it does. I do know it is exceedingly inedible, and apparently tastes quite bad. I haven't tried that either. I just think it comes up so nicely early in the year and covers the muddy nastiness that is a swamp before the ferns really get going.
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