Friday’s seedlings – skunk cabbage
Same of the readers may remember that last fall there was a little ‘accident’ with some of the skunk cabbage seeds: they have started to germinate unexpectedly in the moist vermiculite in October (without a cold period – Friday’s-germinated-seeds).
I was planning to return them to their muddy place but cold weather settled in very early, so they remained planted in a pot in the garage.
Symplocarpus foetidus emerging in early spring (in the dark, reason why a bit etiolated)
Spring came, and it is time to take them back to live with their parents. The roots are not too long yet and it’s just a matter of sticking them into the mud.
I can show on a picture from another year what’s the size of the seedlings roots right now.
They are not fast growers, that’s for sure!
I was admiring the skunk cabbages in bloom this weekend, they have a bit of an reputation for being invasive in the UK, I was pleased to see them looking splendid in the sunshine.
I think you may have admired the other skunk cabbage, which I read that it became invasive in UK – Lysichiton (yellow flowers= americanumm white flowers=camtschatcensis).
Symplocarpus doesn’t produce too many seeds and it’s been very little propagated. It may have the potential to become invasive or not, hard to tell…