Skunk Cabbage/Swamp Lantern/Lysichiton americanum

Must be spring...ah, the scent of swamp lanterns in the gullies; here, creekside at Patricia and Bob's.

Apparently, indigenous people used to rely on these as "famine food" in the early spring. That means they don't taste very good.

This gully has been over-run by the notorious silver-nettle vine/Lamium maculatum, which is commonly sold in nurseries and often comes in annual hanging baskets. People tend to toss spent annual baskets "over the bank", where the silver-nettle vine takes hold and spreads like wildfire. Between this and rampant Himalayan blackberry and a peculiar herbaceous invasive bamboo, this gully becomes impenetrable without some shared vigilance between me & the neighbour.