> Can anybody help me to find Symplocarpus foetidus seeds or seedlings please? > > When I saw where L. vernum was growing in the wild in the Czech > > Republic, I knew why they never survived for me. It was in the same > > squelchy conditions where I would expect our native Lysichiton > > americanus. As the new member Marilyn will find out, you learn something new quite often on this list. I had not realised, or maybe just forgotten, that Symplocarpus was also called skunk cabbage. I am used to the yellow http://theroyallandscape.co.uk/thegarden/… bc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished and white forms of Lysichiton, which also grows at Saville garden not far from my home. I always think it looks more like a giant cos lettuce. Brian Whyer, Buckinghamshire, England, zone ~8? Where the magnolias are breaking, many weeks early