Country diary: All hail the horsetail, a plant that could survive anything | Kate Blincoe
Newton Flotman, Norfolk: It looks like a toilet brush yet predates the dinosaurs. I can’t help but give it a stroke by the roadside, even if I get strange looksThe rural road is flanked with a bank of green fuzz. It’s jungly and verdant – lush in a landscape that has turned brown and yellow from drought. I run my hand over the green bristles erupting from a bamboo-like stem.Equisetum arvense, or field horsetail, looks fluffy, but it is wiry and…
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