We can get this plant from the local pond shop.
Called 'scouring rush' ....

Nedra
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"LRobi31070" wrote in message
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Sorry i called the plant a bamboo. The person who gave it to me referred
it to
me as such. Here is the correct name for it.

http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature...isetumhye.html