Time Out For a Little Botany
I promised Keiko of Saunter and Repose I’d post a picture of a skunk cabbage, and here it is. In certain moist hollows on the coast, they grow with abandon. The pistil, or stamen, or whatever that penile thang is emerging from that prepuce thang has intricate rows of coiled polleniferous structures wound around it. Hey, is it hot in here, or is it just me? The plants have a slightly sulfurous odor, but it takes imagination and previous experience to evoke “skunk” from it. The honkin’ shamrocks growing around it are equally amazing.
