Dalbotorpsravinerna, Naturreservat

Species with different environmental requirements live side by side in the Dalbotorpravinerna nature reserve. There is great variety in a small area - with streams and springs, ravines and plateaus. The old mixed coniferous forest is also a haven for many rare species, such as the fire thistle and the bombardier's marble.

Deep ravines

In places, the water has cut deep into the loose soil layers and streams meander in a natural course in the ravine valleys. The streams are lined with the magnificent fern ostrich fern. The beautiful goldenrod, which blooms in yellow-green in early spring, grows in the springs and wetlands. The nutrient-rich and fine-grained soils of the ravine bottoms, which are subject to periodic flooding, are ideal conditions for both the goldenrod and the ostrich fern.

Rare fungi

Coal has been produced in the past. In the reserve you can find the remains of charcoal kilns and old charcoal heaps, where charcoal kilns stood. But for the last 100 years the forest has remained uncultivated, providing plenty of decaying wood and high nature values. On lying, dead spruce trunks, spruce logs, several unusual wood fungi have been noted, such as the woolly tick, blood tick and fire tick. The rare fire blight is associated with spruce logs that are coarse and highly decayed, in environments with high and even humidity.

Orchid of the coniferous forest

The high humidity in the ravines also favors rare lichens. At the base of the trunk of large spruces you can find, among other things, cat's foot lichen. Aspen grows leather lichen and burdock lichen. Mosses also thrive and the forest is covered by a green moss carpet. The moss carpet has elements of slightly rarer species such as dark house moss and forest hook moss. In the moss carpets, you may come across knotweed, a small white flowering orchid that belongs in older spruce forests.