Some plants can generate heat:
Some emerging herbaceous plants, like those growing from bulbs, produce heat to melt snow in order to more easily break through it in the springtime,” she said. “This is most famously true of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, likely our earliest-blooming herbaceous native.
Who knew?
* Skunk cabbage is my old nemesis. When 7 or 8 I received a plastic sword. I charged down into the ravine in front of our house and attacked the biggest leaves I could find … skunk cabbage. The smell did wash off my sword, but the skunk cabbage has been safe from my ravages for 40 years or so now.
