Latest Equisetum Stories

Horsetail plant developed successful set of tools for extreme environments, maintained them for millions of yearsOver 100 million years ago, the understory of late Mesozoic forests was dominated by a diverse group of plants of the class Equisetopsida. Today, only one genus from this group, Equisetum (also known as horsetail or scouring rush), exists"”and it is a prime candidate for being the oldest extant genus of land plant.There is some debate as to the evolutionary beginnings of the...

Scientists from the University of Bonn are researching which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years ago. They want to find out how the dinosaurs were able to become as large as they did. In actual fact such gigantic animals should not have existed. The results of the research have now been published in the journal 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B'.Take 200 milligrams of dried and ground equisetum, ten milliliters of digestive juice from sheep's rumen, a few...