Among the oldest of plants

[Steve Foss]

This is one of a handful of species of horsetail found in Minnesota. Among the oldest of plants, horsetails look now much as they looked when the world was young. Here's one from the national forest near Ely in the deep shade.

Canon 30D, Canon 100-400L IS at 400mm, iso400, 1/50 at f5.6, handheld

[jonny_redhorse]

Nice again Steve!...ton of these around my area also...I read that these horse tails (million years ago) were like a hundred feet tall! ...brontosaurasis musta chewed on em

[Dbl]

Cool.