Skunk Cabbage melts snow and ice! Five Fascinating Facts you should know including Thermogenesis!
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2021
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage is the first spring woodland wildflowers to emerge each year in temperate North American forests. The plant has the rare property of producing its on heat sometimes up to 35 C or 63 F degrees above ambient temperature! It literally can melt its way through snow and ice! All parts of the plant smell like a skunk or fetid flesh (see scientific name Symplocarpus foetidus ) The heat of the flower helps spread its odor and attracted flies for pollination. Its common name refers to its range on the eastern part of USA, Skunk referring to its odor and Cabbage referring to its great size later in the spring. The flower attracts pollinating flesh flies, other insects seeking a warm place, and even spiders taking advantage of the insect traffic in and out of flower. This flower has two main parts including the spathe and spadix. Petal-less flowers are located on the spadix. Plants will live decades and the the rhizome gets larger and deeper in soil each year. Preferring swampy soil at the end of each growing season its roots contract and pull it deeper into the soil. Filmed in Floyd County, Virginia.
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I'm always happy to see the first signs of spring, even the skunk cabbage. Getting a good picture of the spadix is a challenge sometimes.
Ha! Yes..a tough but rewarding photo to capture!
Skunk cabbage and Jack in the pulpit are my favorite plants
They are both pretty high up on my list. I was looking to see if my resident skunk cabbages have begun to show here yet!
Hi Frank from Pennsylvania student Jeff. Awsome video. Thank you. As always I learn something from you. God bless teacher😊😊
Frank. I saw my first box turtle today. We had just got done with a controlled burn on SGL 251. It was another grass land burn. God bless Frank 😊
Wow! I learned a lot, and especially liked learning about thermogenesis
Thanks Chris...i really couldn't wait to share this story!! :-)
Awesome and informative video! We are reading the Living Year by Richard Headstrom and you always have a great video to support the daily reading! Thank you for what you do!
Awe! Thank you so much for your kind words! Your reply is why I keep making videos!! 😊❤
I remember first finding skunk cabbage in wet areas were I grew up,in New Jersey...walking from my house into the Watchung Reservation! I spent hours and days there as a kid!
We have areas just like that at our house and our skunk cabbages are starting to come too! Thanks for the video it’s just in time!!
Awesome! Always makes me smile to get shares like this! Amaxing plant! Thanks for sharing with me! Keep in touch as spring unfolds!
Smelling skunk cabbage is on my bucket list! I’ve not been able to find one yet though.
Hi Vance! I worthy bucket list item. Where do you live...county, state? Maybe I can point you in right direction!
To be honest, you always seem pretty excited about the things you're showing us in your backyard, but I can't blame you!
Ha! Sarcasticron! Yup...i am always excited to reveal and share.... ..hey wait a minute...you are not even being sarcastic? Thanks for your comment! My viewer feed back ...feeds that energy!
The roots can actually move the plant up down and to the sides to adjust its position. The central rhizome can be two feet long and the roots can be huge
Wow...I understood it could pull down.. I was unaware of other mobility!
So cool! I made a video about the eastern skunk cabbage on my channel as well. I have them in my backyard here in PA. Mine isn’t as informative as yours but you get the idea lol. Well done my friend 👍🏼
Hi! Thanks for commenting Northeast Hardy Tropicals! Checking it out now!
I read about Skunk cabbage in a physics problem about radiation. Your video was very informative and so fun to watch. Brilliant content, sir!
Thank you so much Shm Krar fascinating thermodynamics, yes?
@@natureatyourdoor Yes sir, wonders of nature!
@@shmkrar1153 Good to meet you!
Looks like I will be heading out to the woods tomorrow! thanks
Ha! Yes Rita...near creeks and swampy land...or do you already know where they are? Let me know if you find them post PHOTOS on my Facebook...NATURE AT YOUR DOOR or #natureatyourdoor
@@natureatyourdoor My husband and I have new woodland property in central Virginia and this will be our first early spring. If I find any I will be sure to let you know with pictures.
@@ritazimmermann2918 I am hoping to reveal the spring wildflowers as they emerge! Stay tuned!
Great video about my favorite plant. I have not seen any rhizomes wider than a few inches so I am not sure where you got the info that the rhizome can be a foot in diameter. Do you have photos of that?
I do not...I never dug one up but the info is pretty reliable...they go deep deep into the ground and actually can bury themselves deeper annually! Crazy right?
I would think that the pigments it has, probably anthocyanins, also play a part in their ability to bloom early and generate heat with that dark red color.
Yes. Interesting observation! Thanks for sharing!
Do you have documentation of honeybees using skunk cabbage for warming themselves?
Not personally ...i 'll go back and find the reference!
www.beverlybees.com/skunk-cabbage-late-winter-forage-bees/
Eastern Skunk Cabbage: A Heater For Bees!
by Anita Deeley at BeverlyBees.com
A native plant that creates its own heat, Eastern Skunk Cabbage provides pollen, shelter and warmth for foraging bees.
Blooms: Feb-April Bee Forage: Pollen Pollen Color
The plants rhizomatous caudex (its brain) can live for over 1000 years. Jack in the pulpits corm (its brain) only lives about 25 - 50 years.
Okay...so how do you know soooo much about this plant...through hands on research?
I’ve been fascinated by skunk cabbage since I was 4 years old. I’ve always had a psychic tie to plants. There roots produce the same neurotransmitters that our animal brains do. Skunk cabbage has such a large advanced nervous system that you can feel its consciousness at the ground level it’s a deep primordial sentience that permeates its haunts. It’s also very benevolent and compassionate very alien but very familiar. The first time I saw a skunk cabbage i sensed its mind. However I was told they had no mind so I was afraid of it. But as soon as I found out they were conscious that mind was what drew me to this entity. It imprinted on my young mind as a close friend. Later that year I saw a Jack in the pulpit. I thought it was a different stage of the same plant. But I learned that they were different beings. The Jack in the pulpit is more sensitive than the skunk cabbage and also more timid. Because these beings imprinted on me at such a young age I have studied them since then for almost 30 years. They are my friends and I cannot stand to see people harm either of them.
@@natureatyourdoorit you have any questions on it you can ask me. I have a lifetime of knowledge on skunk cabbage and Jack in the pulpit. I’m also a horticulturist. Also I know a lot about the plants Mind which is a very sparsely studied area because most people don’t care what a plant thinks. I do!!!
Actually skunk cabbage doesn’t self pollinate. But it can clone itself but will only do so if it has no sexual partners available
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this information!
Are you married? Hahaha!
😉 🫢 Yes, I am!