Plant identification please?

[StephenL]

Anyone care to put a name to this beautiful yellow water plant, photographed in the grounds of Wyvill Hall at Constable Burton, near Leyburn, North Yorkshire. It was close to 18 inches tall.

[Chevvyf1]

Re: Plant identification please?

Anyone care to put a name to this beautiful yellow water plant, photographed in the grounds of Wyvill Hall at Constable Burton, near Leyburn, North Yorkshire. It was close to 18 inches tall.

Arum Lily family ! I took some shots of these at Hilliers Gardens and Arboretum the other Sunday ... Water Marginals - my RHS Encyclopaedia are back in the loft so I cannot check out the colour/latin name for you.

[Chevvyf1]

Re: Plant identification please?

Stephen if you Google Arum Lily and then select images ... you will see them all colours and YELLOW !

[LMGruchy]

Re: Plant identification please?

Skunk cabbage. Lysochiton americanus.

[StephenL]

Re: Plant identification please?

Skunk cabbage. Lysochiton americanus.

Certainly looks uncannily like the ones on Wikipedia. And if I recall there was a certain odour, which my wife blamed on me, and I on the dog.

[catkins]

Re: Plant identification please?

It's the good old skunk cabbage so named (if you care to take a smell of its flowers) because of its rather ripe whiff! It's really at its best at this time of the year when flowering, as the foliage is not particularly interesting. Best grown in damp bog garden type conditions. And as Chevvyf1 says, it's a member of the Arum familly.

Common Name: Yellow skunk cabbage
Genus: Lysichiton
Species: americanus


Regards
Chris

(The trouble with keeping a page open while reading other postings is that when I came to read this and then post it, the answer had already been posted! So clever clogs me - not!)

[LMGruchy]

Re: Plant identification please?

Ah yes, but your remarks were in context and it's nice to have confirmation.

[Chevvyf1]

Re: Plant identification please?

It's the good old skunk cabbage so named (if you care to take a smell of its flowers) because of its rather ripe whiff! It's really at its best at this time of the year when flowering, as the foliage is not particularly interesting. Best grown in damp bog garden type conditions. And as Chevvyf1 says, it's a member of the Arum familly.

Common Name: Yellow skunk cabbage
Genus: Lysichiton
Species: americanus


Regards
Chris

(The trouble with keeping a page open while reading other postings is that when I came to read this and then post it, the answer had already been posted! So clever clogs me - not!)

Chris, your NOT ALONE

[LMGruchy]

Re: Plant identification please?

Quite apart from the name question, I love the picture.

I photographed some of these at RHS Harlow Carr a couple pf years ago but I don't thnk mine came out so well.

[StephenL]

Re: Plant identification please?

Thanks - it was taken with the XZ-1.