Beech forest in autumn

Beech snag

One of the thickest forest-grown European beeches anywhere. Girth 456 cm

Large dead beech

Beech forest

Beech forest. Also one sycamore maple (large tree, right centre, leaning slightly to the right)

Beech forest. Black elder shrubs. Wild garlic flowering

Foreground, flowering perennial honesty. Right foreground, numerous beech seedlings

Rich herb layer including sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum, left foreground with leaflets in whorls and flowers), perennial honesty (left foreground with large leaves), coralroot bittercress (Cardamine bulbifera, right centre foreground with narrow leaflets), touch-me-not balsam (Impatiens noli-tangere, centre foreground with broad leaves), spring snowflake (Leucojum vernum, wilted leaves right foreground), wild garlic (with white flowers left of bracket fungus), with abundant white-flowering cow parsley (Anthricus sylvestris) in background

Beech forest with wild garlic on forest floor. Black elder shrubs

Beech forest with wild garlic on forest floor. Also black elder (left)

Base of big large-leaved linden on the stony ridge. Beech forest on the slope

Large Norway maple (girth 342 cm) in beech forest on the ridge. In the foreground black elder