On the beach beside the harbour, there are fossilised trees related to Horsetails, dating back to the Carboniferous geological period.
It is an aquatic species and it inhabits in dense vegetation, mainly of Carex and Equisetum, at the edges of lakes or in non-flowing waters and deep ponds.
This gives them a jointed appearance superficially resembling the stems of some species of Equisetum.
The sweetgum forests are often intersected by ditches and frequently have an undergrowth of horse tail.
Mixed-linkage glucan : xyloglucan endotransglucosylase (MXE) is a plant cell wall-modifying enzyme found in plants of the Equisetum genus.
Equisetum | ''R. germanica'' subimago on ''Equisetum hyemale | Equisetum myriochaetum | Equisetum hyemale | Equisetum giganteum | Equisetum arvense |