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Stewart Robert Hinsley;886353 Wrote:
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On 2010-05-05 19:53:48 +0100, "shazzbat"
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We went to the allotment today by a different route to the usual, and
on the way we spotted this plant in a roadside ditch. We haven't seen
it there in previous years. *What is it?

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Skunk cabbage - very handsome.-

The BSBI ('BSBI' (http://www.bsbi.org.uk)) might be interested.

That's the yellow, western or American skunk cabbage, Lysichiton
americanum. There's also a northeast Asian species with white spathes..
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

It's appeared in our nature reserve this year. Any idea whether it's a
harmless garden escape or something invasive we should be worrying
about?

Google Lysichiton invasive site:uk

There are a number of official looking pages listing it as invasive, but I
haven't found one that says how bad it is.
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I was given one about seven years ago as a gift that a friend bought for me
at a garden centre. *It lives in my main pond and has large leaves and
flowers but doesn't seem to occur in my other pond or in any of the
neighbouring streams, so maybe it's not all that invasive.

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I think the reason it is classed as invasive is because the seeds wash
down strean and grow where they settle.
David Hill