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Interesting plant species
The giant horsetail Equisetum telmateia
The giant horsetail is a real giant - it grows up to 1.5 m tall and is the largest of the native horsetails. Apart from its size, another characteristic feature of the plant is forming two kinds of shoots. In early spring yellow-brown fertile (spore-bearing) shoots appear, which die after the spores spill out. In summer thick green sterile shoots grow from the underground rhizome and they may reach 1.5 m in height. The giant horsetail is a rare and protected species. It is the easiest to find it in humid, shaded spots, by headwaters and along streams and rivers. As its natural habitats are disappearing, it occurs more and more often in places considerably changed by man, e.g. at roadsides, on railway embankments and in ditches. The places where the giant horsetail occurs in the greatest abundance in the O¶więcim-Zator Region are forest complexes of Pu¶ciny and Granica Polańska-Dalachowice.
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