CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  This strange plant is the Dutch rush Equisetum hyemale  which isn't a rush at all - it's a member of that strange division of the ...

The Durham coast isn’t a top destination for fossil hunters, who find richer pickings further south under the crumbling cliffs around Whi...

It's bad news when these appear in your garden. This is the spore-producing shoot of field horsetail Equisetum arven...

These are the fertile shoots of great horsetail Equisetum telmateia , photographed along the Long Walk at Howick on the Northumberland coast...

I found these strange, spore-producing shoots of field horsetail Equisetum arvense on a grassy bank near Durham city this afternoon. Know...