What is blooming there?

Forest is more than a group of trees. It only becomes really valuable through everything that thrives in the shade. We have put together a few pieces of jewelry.

Text: Peter Laufmann

A tree alone does not make a forest, even hundreds of trees. No, in order for a forest to become the colorful after -school care of diversity, thousands of more species are needed. And many of them are not as agile as a mouse or a beetle. In addition to mushrooms, mosses, ferns, grasses, all kinds of flowers enrich the overall picture of a forest of herbaceous plants. They characterize a forest to do the same as trees.

Around 1,000 different flowers thrive in the forest ecosystems between the North Sea and the Alps. Of course, trees set the tone. They form the climate, keep moisture and let light to the lower relatives. All other organisms have to live with it. Flowers have developed a few tricks in the forest,

What is blooming there?

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