Can anyone identify this flower?

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Best match in the flower book is lords and ladies but this is much bigger and yellow. Growing in damp ground in the Lake District.

Looks like a type of lily...

The plantnet app gives Arum italicum

Looks like a Calla lily

Skunk cabbage?

But maybe Arum creticum?

www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Arum

Skunk cabbage

Skunk cabbage is a thing?

Definitely skunk cabbage

Ooh so it is! That looks just like it! Escapee from North America.

Definitely skunk cabbage, is the ground a bit boggy?

My parents have lots of them in their garden near the stream. They stink!

sorry just reread to see you said damp ground!

Definately skunk cabbage ( lysichiton americanum), also known as swamp lantern, an invasive alien species from the aroid genus. Now unlawful to sell, exchange, give away or allow to escape from your garden, if you have it. Shame really, like all the aroids and arums it is a fascinating plant with its own beauty. Wish I actually had some! It has a stunning relative called 'dead horse arum' (Helicodiceros muscivorus) which is even more bizzare and pongy!

I looked up dead horse arum. Sounds amazing but I'm glad i don't live near one. Not one for the bridal bouquet.

Indeed not! Dragon arum is also fascinating, stinky and very phallic. Not to everyone's taste, granted, but interesting all the same

I've got a voodooo Lilly growing at the moment. I'm so excited to see what it looks like when it flowers in a month or so.
I do have it in a large pot though so if it's too nauseating I can get DH to move it

Beekeeper I think that might be the same as mine. Have you got one?

Yes, milleniumhandandprawn, have voodoo lily, dragon arum and dead horse arum, but no near neighbours, fortunately! The scent, perfume, aroma ( go on then....stench!) is certainly pungent to say the least. One I really would like to get my hands on is Amorphophallus mozambicius from East Africa where my partner originally hails from

Wow! That one is stunning!
Are you in the uk? Do you bring them in during the winter?

Here are some impressive arums out there. Just posting in admiration and envy whilst looking over my window box.

Yes, in the UK - some are perfectly hardy and live outside permanently, others less so and need to be kept frost free and dry through the winter. Wet, cold soil is their enemy as they are very prone to rotting if sitting in wet soil whilst dormant. The 'International Aroid Society' is a brilliant source of information