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Variegated Horsetail

Marchrawnen Fraith

Plantae
Calamophytes (Horsetails)
Equisetales
Family: Equisetaceae
Oxwich Dunes
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Not totally consistent with the key on the characteristics of the teeth of leaf-sheaths. Possibly E. x trachyodon (E. hyemale x E. variegatum) ?

(I was too preoccupied with the Gentianellas in the area to notice this at the time.)
18 September 2010
Category: Wild-growing plants and fungi of the British Isles
Species / hybrid not certain
British Isles status: native
Scarce
Perennial


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Photographer: J R Crellin

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NIKON D700
18/09/2010 13:31:29
1/160 sec - F/16
Lens: 105mm f/2.8 G VR
Sensitivity: ISO 1250
Depth of field: 0.01 m (0.31 - 0.32)
Light value: 11.7


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