Nigel Cattlin / Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica), tender shoots used for cooking in South East Asia. Thailand.

Heather Angel / Skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus), taken with infra-red thermograph camera in swamp area. Spadix hottest at 22C. In cultivation, Surrey, England, UK. Native to Canada and USA. Sequence 2/2.

Heather Angel / Skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus) in visible light. In cultivation, Surrey, England, UK. Native to Canada and USA. Sequence 1/2.

Ingo Arndt / Swamp Sawgrass (Cladium mariscus) and Cabbage Palm (Sabal palmetto) Island in mist, Big Cypress National Preserve, Everglades, Florida, USA, January.

Ingo Arndt / Swamp sawgrass (Cladium mariscus) prairie and Cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) Island in mist, Big Cypress National Preserve, Everglades, Florida, USA, January 2015.

Ingo Arndt / Swamp Sawgrass (Cladium mariscus) and Cabbage Palm (Sabal palmetto) island in mist, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

MYN / Clay Bolt / Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) Southern Appalachians, North Carolina, United States, February. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Juan Carlos Munoz / Common Sabal Palm (Sabal palmetto) Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA, March 2013.

Matthias Breiter / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum) flowering, Cordova, Alaska

Gerry Ellis / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum) in old growth temperate rainforest, Misty Fjords National Monument, Alaska

Sumio Harada / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum), Rocky Mountains, North America

Matthias Breiter / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanum) showing bright yellow spathe surrounding the club-like spadix, Cordova, Alaska