The Great Horsetail is an ancient plant that is seedless and flowerless. They spread by rhizome and spores shed by the fertile stems
The Great Horsetail is an ancient plant that is seedless and flowerless. They spread by rhizome and spores shed by the fertile stems that grow in spring. Ancenstors of these plants were growing in the Carboniferous forests and fed on by dinosaurs
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