tags: botany, Majavankaalit, skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, Helsinki, Finland, travel, photography, image of the day
Symplocarpus foetidus (Family: Araceae) (Majavankaalit or Skunk Cabbage)
Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 15 May 2010 [larger view].
I hope that you are enjoying your holiday,Grrl.
I think that Arums are nearly as fascinating a group of plants as Orchids and Cacti. I used to have quite a collection of them in my youth, although my mother didn't approve of the smell for some reason.
Not a flower of course, but an inflorescence, a whole spike of little flowers wrapped up in a showy bract.