some followers may already know this about me but one of my favorite plants is a cool neato technical wildflower called the Eastern Skunk Cabbage.
this is what a blooming Eastern Skunk Cabbage looks like:
these plants are so comically disgusting like
-they smell like rotting flesh if you accidentally crush the outer part of the flower
-they like to live in mud and bogs and prefer environments where they can have cold running water over their roots at all times
-they’re pollinated by flies and beetles
-they bloom in really late winter and casually heat themselves up and just burn through the snow. like they just casually do that for two weeks out of the year
-these bois are not annuals. no. these bois are deep rooted and there to stay bitch. like if you cut their main tuber in half, you can see them already starting growth for the outer part of their flower for blooms up to ten years in the future.
-i did an entire research project on them and their heating mechanisms because theyre a really good example of the protein im interested in, the Alternative Oxidase Protein
-these bois actually measure the exact outside temperature and adjust their inner bloom temperature to keep it perfectly steady. we dont know how it does this yet, we just know that the measuring mechanism is in the outer part of the flower.
-they’re native flowers in the midwest and up through canada
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