Comments on: Horsetail Eradication

By: hortoris

hortoris — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:01:38 +0000

You live and learn.
As I haven’t been around for 60 million years I bow to superior knowledge. Thanks

By: Bill Grange

Bill Grange — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:35:27 +0000

I don’t think Equisetum telmatia has been around for 60 million years (unless you really know differently), but its relatives certainly have been on earth for at leat 300 million years when some of them (Calamites) grew to the size of trees. Botanically, horsetails (please don’t call them ‘marestails’ – which are aquatic flowering plants) are in the fern group, producing spores from the cone-shaped heads that appear before the foliage.

By: hortoris

hortoris — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:09:05 +0000

I have read it is eaten in Japan!

By: lou

lou — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:56:07 +0000

How is this plant wiped out when it is in artostapholis? It is a broadleaf plant?

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