Lysichiton camtschatcensis, common name Asian skunk cabbage,[1] white skunk cabbage, Far Eastern swamp lantern or Japanese swamp lantern, is a plant found in swamps and wet woods, along streams and in other wet areas of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and northern Japan.

The Asian skunk cabbage is more variable: plants have been reported in different cases to smell disgusting, not at all, and sweet.

"water-banana") from a supposed similarity to the Japanese banana, a name with poetic rather than malodorous associations.

In early spring each plant produces a fragrant, pointed white spathe up to 40 cm (16 in) long, surrounding a green spadix.

[4] Like its close relative, L. americanus, it is used as a marginal aquatic plant in gardens in Great Britain and Ireland.