Skunk cabbage pushes up through snow in late February, creating enough heat as it grows to melt the ice and snow around it, enough heat in fact to maintain a temperature of 70 degrees inside the purple hood where the knob-like spadix, covered with greenish-white flowers, hides.
(Skunk cabbage; pushes up; through snow; T:in late February) Context(Skunk cabbage pushes up,List([0, 23))):(Skunk cabbage; pushes up through snow creating; enough heat; T:as it grows to melt the ice and snow around it) (the knob-like spadix; covered; with greenish-white flowers) (the knob-like spadix, covered with greenish-white flowers; hides; L:the purple hood) (it; grows; to melt the ice and snow around it)
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pushes up pushes up through snow creating covered hides grows
through snow T:in late February
enough heat T:as it grows to melt the ice and snow around it
with greenish-white flowers
L:the purple hood
to melt the ice and snow around it