This smell lures flies and beetles to the flowers, which aids in pollination. A fun fact about skunk cabbage is that it creates its own heat through cellular respiration and can melt snow and ice.

When the bright veil of snow lifts, ... It turns out that skunk cabbage is one of the very few plants capable of thermogenesis — of creating heat.

Jon Snow on smoking skunk for TV: "I felt worse than I felt in Gaza" Jon Snow reveals what it was like to smoke skunk as part of a documentary. By Katy Finbow Published: 03 March 2015.

A woman, holding what appears to be a snow shovel, uses the broad plastic to try and direct the skunk away from the house. ... Skunk spray contains sulfur-based organic compounds called thiols.