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Botanical excursions
Vogel
| Starting point: |
the lower Vogel cable car station |
| Duration: |
5 hours |
| Difficulty: |
moderate |
| Price: |
not available this year |
| Equipment: |
trekking shoes and clothes, rucksack, sun and tick protection, refreshing drink |
| Included: |
guide |
| Minimum number of participants: 6 |
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Route description
We take the cable car and ride on the Vogel mountain. Our route starts at Ski Hotel and continues towards the Žagarjev graben, where we enter the Lopata forest. The forest is predominantly overgrown with beech and does not abound in flora, since there are not many plants growing in the forest's undergrowth, which is also not very rich in plant life. We can notice the Three-leaved Windflower (Anemone trifolia), Cyclame (Cyclamen purpurascens), Drooping Bittercress (Dentaria enneaphyllos), Wall Lettuce (Mycelis muralis), Yellow Archangel (Galeobdolon flavidum), Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis), Jupiter's Distaff (Salvia glutinosa) and many other.
The basins are predominantly overgrown with Alpine pine forest, where we can find several herbs: Alpine Leaf Beetle (Adenostyles glabra), Nettle-leaved Speedwell (Veronica urticifolia), Three-leaved Valerian (Valeriana tripteris), Coltsfoot (Homogyne sylvestris), Green Spleenwort (Asplenium viride), Stiff Clubmoss (Lycopodium annotium), Alpine Coltsfoot (Homogyne alpina), Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), Cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) and Wintergreen (Pyrolaceae). On higher and more extreme habitat, the forest is becoming overgrown with dwarf pines. These includes also the Juniper (Juniperus sibirica), Balkan Willow (Salix appendiculata), Alpine Willow (Salix glabra), Mountain Ash (Sorbus aucuparia), Medlar (Sorbus chamaemespilus), Black Honeysuckle (Lonicera nigra), Alpine Currant (Ribes alpinum), Droopig Rose (Rosa pendulina). The most typical low-grow shrub is the Hairy Rhododendron (Rhododendron hirsutum), and Ground Cistus (Rhodotamnus chamaecistus), an Evergreen Shrub (Vaccinium myrtillus), Bilberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), Cranberry and Mountain Crowberry (Empetrum hermaphroditum).
We finish our walk with the ride to the valley by cable car.
Flowers along the route
Reservation
The information marked by * is mandatory!
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