Eastern Skunk Cabbage Essays

  • Skunk Cabbage and Thermogenesis

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    The Skunk Cabbage is a species from the Arum family and is located in the Eastern and Western North America. In the Eastern North America, the Skunk Cabbage is known as Symplocarpus foetidus, and in the Western North America, it is known as Lysichiton americanus. It is seen plants in the Arum family are monocotyledon flowering plants where the flowers are borne on a spadix, which is enclosed by a leaf-like bract called a spathe (Ito-Inaba et al., 2009). This plant was given the name Skunk Cabbage