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skunk cabbages
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skunk cabbages

Lysichiton

Lysichiton is a genus in the family Araceae. These plants are known commonly as skunk cabbage or less often as swamp lantern. The spelling Lysichitum is also found. The genus has two species, one found in north-east Asia (Japan and Russian Far East), the other in north-west America (Aleutians to Santa Cruz County in California).

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

western skunk cabbage

speciesLysichiton americanus

White Skunk Cabbage

speciesLysichiton camtschatcensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48729.