What is "dracontium"

n. (context pharmacy obsolete English) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, ''Symplocarpus foetidus''

n. any plant of the genus Dracontium; strongly malodorous tropical American plants usually with gigantic leaves

Dracontium is a genus of flowering plants similar to those of Amorphophallus. It is native to South America, Central America, southern Mexico, and the West Indies.

Dracontium species can be distinguished from related genera by their inflorescence, which is smaller and unisexual. The plant has a large tuber similar to that of Amorphophallus, but rounder, and with no central and circular scar mark. When Dracontium plants begin to flower, the tuber swells and smoothens.