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Skunk Cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus

Skunk Cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus. The Earliest Wildflower. Endothermy in Plants . Skunk cabbage plants in family Araceae use metabolic heat to warm flowers…are thermogenic infloresence is 15-35°C higher than environment; melts snow

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Skunk Cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus

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  1. Skunk CabbageSymplocarpusfoetidus The Earliest Wildflower

  2. Endothermy in Plants • Skunk cabbage • plants in family Araceae use metabolic heat to warm flowers…are thermogenic • infloresence is 15-35°C higher than environment; melts snow • heat produced by high rate of respiration (starch transported from root to inflorescence) • metabolic rate varies with environmental temperature

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