You are looking at a true living fossil, Horsetail—one of our most ancient plants on the earth today and still useful!—A revered medicinal plant with silicates coating their stems.
Here is a cool factoid about Horsetail—it was once noticed that the pattern of spacing of the nodes (where the leaves are arranged in whorls), becomes closer and closer together as they approach the apex. It is this mathematical spacing that inspired the invention of “logarithms”…sacred geometry!!!
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Photo by Gabriela Ruellan