horse tails
crisscrossing the sky —
maybe spring
#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #horsetails #marestails #clouds #spring
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study uses ancient plant to decode #Earth's #climate history
the study focuses on #horsetails — hollow-stemmed #plants that have thrived on Earth for more than 400 million years. The team’s findings reveal that #water traveling through these plants undergoes such intense natural […]
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Photorealistic animation of extinct tree-like horsetails of the genus Calamites from 350 million years ago. Not AI. Created with Blender, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro.
#calamites #horsetails #flora #prehistoric #blender3d
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Diplocaulus swimming. Created with Blender and Adobe Premiere Pro. Not AI.
#diplocaulus #carboniferous #horsetails #flora #fauna #prehistoric
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Mazon Monday #277: Sphenophyllales from the Mazon Creek flora (Upper Moscovian: Illinois, USA) #fossils #paleontology #MazonMonday #MazonCreek #paleobotany #sphenophyllales #horsetails
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Looks like Lyme Regis has had a bit of an influx of prehistoric #plants in time for the #fossil festival. #Horsetails can be a proper pain in flower beds.
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Wood Horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum), Nuuksio National Park, Espoo, Finland 03.06.2007
#espoo #finland #nature #naturephotography #photography #flora #plant #plants #horsetail #horsetails #valokuvataivas
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I love that horsetails have been around for hundreds of millions of years. When I was a kid I was fascinated that there used to be tree-sized horsetails.
#horsetails #spring #equisetum #ancientplants #alaskasky
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A deep black expanse of new-ish asphalt, rain-slick, next to a grey concrete power pole base, is being punctured in innumerable places by the brilliant green pointy cone shaped tips of emerging Giant Horsetail fronds (Equisetum telmateia, possibly ssp braunii). The funny thing is there used to be a tidy clump of horsetails for years next to the pole, when the road was compacted gravel. The new impermeable surface of the paving seems to have triggered some kind of frantic rhizome expansion, and now there are new fronds lifting through the surface daily in about an 8ft radius. I keep crooning over them in amazed and admiring delight - how can they be so strong, when they fall to bits if touched? - but I can assure you I'm the only one. Everyone else is super annoyed that the new road is being wrecked.
A close up of the brilliant green pointy cone shaped tips of emerging Giant Horsetail fronds (Equisetum telmateia, possibly ssp braunii) poking though inch-thick new-ish rain-wet black asphalt. The delicate segmented fronds expand immediately as they poke through, some are still furled like green lances, some have expanded like little bomb-explosions of greenery, with chunks of road crumbled around them. Sorry for the blurriness, it was rainy and my pocket was soaked so my camera sensor was steamy and I didn't realise. Aren't they cute? I love this plant (oh! it's a Giant Horsetail, Equisetum telmateia), native and *gorgeous*, a fantastic structural plant, but you can see why no one encourages it in their cottage gardens, since it might also show up in the kitchen floor. Definitely ideally enjoyed in marshy parts of the forest along the coast, where it thrives. Though I first fell in love with horsetails at camp in the Rockies as a kid, so different species are all over Western Canada at all elevations, and all tough as nails!
"Inch thick asphalt? Pfft, this is nothin! Back in the day it'd be a 4m deep cooled lava flow, and when we finally poked through we'd get trodden on by Stegosaurus!" (the horsetails are poking through the new road at work! They're so pretty and tough)
#AncientPlants #Equisetum #horsetails #SalishSea
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Equisetum pratense (EN meadow horsetail, PL skrzyp łąkowy). Tuczno, Zielonka Forest, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#horsetails #skrzypy #fernfriends #pteridology
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#EarthDay
The #Ginkgo goes back abt #200MillionYears.
#LadyFerns & #Horsetails haven't changed for #350MillionYears.
The #NorthCascades formed abt #400MillionYears ago. #MtPilchuck popped up #50MillionYears ago.
#America is young. Let’s hope 2025 is growing pains-we survive and come out better.
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Są też żywe skamieniałości niewiele zmienione od wczesnej jury (200 milionów lat temu). Wręcz trudno się ich pozbyć, jeśli macie ogródek.
#horsetails #skrzypy #ferns #paprocie #pteridology
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Equisetum hyemale (EN rough horsetail, PL skrzyp zimowy). Note the silica particles encrusting the surface of the stem (that's what makes this horsetail so rough). Meadows along the bank of the River Warta at Owińska, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#horsetails #ferns #pteridology #naturephotography
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