Boiled and dried, the rough horsetail is used in Japan as a traditional polishing material, finer than sandpaper.

Rough horsetail E. hyemale is still boiled and then dried in Japan, to be used for the final polishing process on woodcraft to produce a smoother finish than any sandpaper.

Equisetum hyemale (rough horsetail or scouring rush), known in South Africa as snake grass, is a species of horsetail native to moist forests, forest edges and stream banks, swamps and fens throughout the Holarctic Kingdom.

Equisetum hyemale is commonly known as scouring rush.

Topsoil we imported to construct a rock garden harbored horsenettle and scouring rush."

Search a streamside for the scouring rush, an Equisetum that frequents marshy or streamside areas.

Equisetum laevigatum is a species of horsetail known by the common names smooth scouring rush and smooth horsetail.

Horsetail or Scouring Rush (Equisetum spp.)

The sparse vegetation under the mature cottonwoods consists mostly of scouring rush, Kentucky bluegrass, smooth brome, and other invasive grasses and weeds.

Equisetum variegatum (commonly known as variegated horsetail or variegated scouring rush) is a horsetail native to the Northern Hemisphere.

Equisetum scirpoides (Dwarf scouring rush, Dwarf Horsetail) Michx., Fl.

Equisetum hyemale (rough horsetail or scouring rush), known in South Africa as snake grass, is a species of horsetail native to moist forests, forest edges and stream banks, swamps and fens throughout the Holarctic Kingdom.

As a result they were used as pot-scourers, especially the species E. hyemale, called Dutch rush or scouring rush, and used in Britain and North America for cleaning and polishing metal such as pewter, brass and copper, and for scouring wooden containers and milk-pails.

Equisetum hyemale, used by some Plateau tribes.

Equisetum hyemale is commonly known as scouring rush.

Equisetum hyemale.

Boiled and dried Equisetum hyemale is used as traditional polishing material like fine grit sandpaper in Japan.

Equisetum x ferrissii (Equisetum hyemale x Equisetum laevigatum)

Equisetum x moorei (Equisetum hyemale x Equisetum ramosissimum)

Equisetum x trachydon (Equisetum hyemale x Equisetum variegatum)

Sometimes the plants are startlingly architectural in form, as in "Equisetum hyemale," the tip of a shoot magnified 25 times, a formidable ribbed tower with multiple setbacks and a pointed top.

When made into a tea with horsetail (Equisetum hyemale), it is claimed to be good for bleeding or ulcers of bowels, or for tumors and inflammation of the bowels.

Equisetum hyemale (rough horsetail or scouring rush), known in South Africa as snake grass, is a species of horsetail native to moist forests, forest edges and stream banks, swamps and fens throughout the Holarctic Kingdom.