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31-05-2009, 04:31 PM
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| | | A Startling fern for ID!
Startling to me anyway! I think its a fern!! Found on the cliffs above Teignmouth. Hosts of them growing there. 
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31-05-2009, 05:27 PM
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| | | Re: A Startling fern for ID!
Not a fern, but one of the Horsetails (Equisetum spp). A very ancient group of plants, been around since the dinosaurs. They contain silica, and were once used to scour pans, I believe.
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It looks like Giant Horsetail, Equisetum telmateia |
03-06-2009, 11:49 AM
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Agree with Giant Horsetail |
04-06-2009, 02:15 PM
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I just love Horsetails. I'm seeing them all over the place now 
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Originally Posted by sunnydale  I just love Horsetails. I'm seeing them all over the place now | Just pray you never get them in your garden vegetable plot!! 
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06-06-2009, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by ceterach Just pray you never get them in your garden vegetable plot!! | Oh dear. I take it you have a problem with them in your veggie plot then?
I don't grow veg. I grow wild flowers! 
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Originally Posted by sunnydale I don't grow veg. I grow wild flowers! |
Unfortunately so do I most of the time!! Don't get enough time to weed.
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