Could anyone identify this for me its popping up everywhere under my stone bedding there's loads of them ?
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Some species of horsetail
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It's a Equisetum arvense or Horsetail and is edible.
It's a Equisetum arvense or Horsetail and is edible.
Caution: TWikipedia
and it is both ancient and has 216 chromosomes, the highest I think found to date.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago
In message , snipped-for-privacy@wi.rr.com writes
Fide Wikipedia, the Adder's Tounge Fern has approximately 1,400 chromosomes (it's hard to count them when there's that many).
Tilia nobilis has 328 (abstract to C.D. Piggott, A Review of Chromosome Numbers in the Genus Tilia (Tiliaceae), Edinburgh Journal of Botany 59:
239-246 (2002))In message , Stewart Robert Hinsley writes
Turns out that Wikipedia is inconsistent. Another page says 1,200 or
1,260 for Ophioglossum reticulatum - a particular species of Adder's Tongue Fern.
When the leaf blade is present, there is not always a spore stalk present, and the plants do not always send up a leaf, sometimes going for a year to a period of years living only under the soil,
nourished by association with soil fungi.
Fun aside, it is really very fascinating.
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