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Description: | Equisetum belongs to group of plants that reproduce using spores, called the Sphenopsids, They had stems with joints and long leaves that grew from the stem at these joints. The group was most common in the Carboniferous period (about 300 million years ago), but they were also quite common in the Jurassic period. They first appeared in the Devonian period. There are15 living species of Equisetum and most are less than 1m tall, however Equisetum giganteum grows up to 6m. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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