Skunk Cabbage is a species in the Arum family and is located in eastern and western North America. In eastern North America, skunk cabbage is known as Symplocarpus foetidus, and in western North America it is known as Lysichiton americanus. Plants of the Arum family are seen to be monocotyledonous flowering plants whose flowers are borne on a spadix, which is surrounded by a leaf-shaped bract called a spathe (Ito-Inaba et al., 2009). This plant was given the name Skunk Cabbage because of its distinctive “skunk” odor that it gives off due to the breaking and tearing of its leaves. This smell will permeate the area where the plant is growing and can even be detected in old, dried specimens. Although it produces such a pungent odor, it is not a toxic odor; but it attracts its pollinators like flies, stoneflies, bees and beetles and also serves to discourage large animals from disturbing or damaging this plant. Although this plant is quite unique because of the "nauseous" odor it gives off, it is also exceptionally unique because of its ability to maintain a constant temperature of around 20 degrees around its spadix, which bears both male and female flowers, even below freezing. conditions (Takashasi et al., 2009; Ito-Kikukatsu et al., 2004). This ability to grow in such conditions is due to the thermogenetic properties of the plant species, skunk cabbage is a thermogenic plant that flowers in early spring and maintains temperatures, as seen above in all weather conditions. In this essay, I will focus on skunk cabbage and its unique characteristics that allow it to survive and thrive by being a poisonous species, distinctive odor, and unique metabolic mechanisms. Anatomy and...... middle of paper .. .... quantity and it can even be found in sub-zero conditions. Heat production in skunk cabbage is mainly observed in the spadix, which can generate enough to melt the snow around it due to its temperature regulation mechanism present in the tissues. This mechanism shows the inverse relationship that the rate of respiratory heat production increases as the ambient temperature decreases. Second, thermogenesis is used to attract pollinators by volatilizing odors and spreading them through the air. Insects attracted to the heat and/or smell of skunk cabbage are encouraged to increase pollination, thereby aiding reproduction. Therefore, getting to know skunk cabbage, we enter a unique world, where a plant is no longer an ordinary plant, but has many distinctive characteristics and mechanisms that allow its survival and growth..