How Many Horses Are In Ireland?

In 2016, there were approximately 9.6 thousand horses in the Border region of Ireland. Estimated horse population in Ireland in 2016, by region* Characteristic Number of horses – – Does Ireland have a lot of horses? In Ireland, the passion for horses has been anchored for generations. With more than Read more…

Can You Eat Horsetail Shoots?

Young horsetail shoots (Equisetum arvense) are an edible wild food, fine for foraging when they are young. They look pretty much as they were in the Paleozoic era but considerably smaller. Is horsetail poisonous to humans? People with heart or kidney disorders, diabetes, or gout should not use horsetail. DO Read more…

Are Horsetails Seed Bearing?

Doing More With Spores Vascular plants like ferns and horsetails don’t have seeds, they reproduce with spores! Is horsetail a spore bearing plant or cone bearing plant? Horsetails are perennial reproduce via spores instead of seeds. Fertile stems appear before the sterile ones and are small, pale, and unbranched. These Read more…

Are Horsetails Monilophyta?

Horsetails, whisk ferns and ferns belong to the phylum Monilophyta, with horsetails placed in the Class Equisetopsida. The single genus Equisetum is the survivor of a large group of plants, known as Arthrophyta, which produced large trees and entire swamp forests in the Carboniferous. Are all ferns in Monilophyta? Horsetails, Read more…