Great Horsetails near Stretton
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Great Horsetails near Stretton
Image: © M J Richardson Taken: 23 Mar 2012
The horsetails are primitive spore-bearing plants, related to the plants that lived in Carboniferous times and produced the Coal Measures. The Giant Horsetail [Equisetum telmateia] is one of two species that produces its sporing structures before the green shoots appear - the other one is E. arvense, an insidious 'weed' of gardens, often wrongly called Marestail, but that is the imprecision of common names for you!
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Image Location
Latitude
53.348754
Longitude
-2.585059