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#1
05-11-2006 00:59
This is an uneducated guess, but it looks to me like a form of bamboo. Funny, I remember seeing that about a year ago. It was very out of place.
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#2
05-11-2006 10:34
Re: What is this?
I think, its Reeds, a form of grass, so, in the same family as Bamboo, but different somehow. Don't know how. It do grow here in Ohio tho, the 2 pictures of it look identical to the grove I know of on my favorite MtBike trail. -
#3
05-13-2006 12:12
This plant is called Horsetails or Scouring Rushes. They have been around for 300 million years and at one time reached a height of almost 100 feet. Today Horsetails only grow a maxium of 5 ft. They are usually found along streams and other moist places. The plants store silica (sand) and can be used to scrub dishes along the stream.
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#4
05-14-2006 17:55
Thanks for the responses!
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#5
02-05-2009 12:33
Re: Horsetails
Saw this plant along the creek I frequented as a kid out in Ohio. We always called in Snake Grass because it seems there were always garter snakes around it. -
#6
10-07-2010 16:42
Re: Horsetails
Lobo's right. Horsetails is an old, old plant. It is not a grass or bamboo but is in its own family of plants.
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