Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1623/en

If one seeks the generative pole of this plant, one finds it — in a few specimens separated from the vegetative part — in the form of reddish-brown, spindle-shaped cones, each seated on a shoot with a closely compressed sequence of stem-joints; at their base they are wrapped in a fringe of dark-brown leaf-tips. The cones present a picture similar to that of mushrooms shooting up out of the darkness of the earth. This makes field horsetail unique in the horsetail family, and so its efficacy against the fungal is comprehensible: in separating the fertile sporangiophore from the sterile green shoot, it sets the fungal gesture, so to speak, aside from itself. The other horsetails carry the sporangial spike at the tip of the green plant.