Mazhar Botanic Garden

Equisetum hyemale L.

Dutch Ruch

Sample code: EGY-MBG-001176
Common name: Dutch Ruch
English name: Rough Horsetail
Arabic name: ذيل الحصان
Native: Eurasia and Greenland
Country: Greenland North America
(PGR): Rare

Evergreen perennial, known for its distinctive, jointed, reed-like stems, these stems dark green, rough and have a bamboo-like appearance with vertical ridges

Ornamental and medicinal

Hippochaete hyemalis (L) Milde ex Bruhin

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Texture: Clay Loam Moist Sandy loam
Fertility: Intermediate
Drainage: Moderately well drained
Topography: Mangrove swamp forest
Salinity: Low
Water Sources: Well water
Climates: Mediterranean
Lights: Full sun Light shade
Propagation: Cutting, branching, rooting
Flowering time: Produce spore-bearing cones at the tips of its stems, late spring to early summer
Zone: 4 : 9
pH range: 5.0-7.5
Status: G5 - Secure
Life span: Perennial
Habits: Reeds swamp
Sample Type: Introduced - cultivated
Collecting Sources: Shop garden
Plant Uses: Medicinal Ornamental
Plant Populations density: Cultivated
Vegetation types: Grassland
pH: Mild acid Neutral

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