Mizubasho (again this year)
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Better get used to it, cause from now on I am going to show photos of mizubasho plants every single spring - at least until I get the perfect photo. Two days ago there was a reporter/photographer who is making an article about clean water. The local office referred him to me, and so I took the opportunity to visit the famous flowers for the first time this year. Both of us agreed that we could have spent an entire day there taking photos.
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My memory has gone hazy on me in my old age, but weren't we were talking about skunk cabbage when I came to visit with my family?
Anyways, these totally look like west-coast skunk cabbage, which grows in the same conditions. Are these edible? Do they make your tongue tingle/numb when you eat the leaves raw?
Posted by: Ryan | May 13, 2010 02:33 PM
It is indeed skunk cabbage (just looked it up). I assume it is more
popular here in Japan than in the west. I have never smelled it though
I will have to try that. It is edible though toxic. I have only tried
it once and I had cooked it according to a recipie in order to make it
not kill me.
Posted by: Kevin | May 14, 2010 08:54 AM