The Czarna Rózga nature reserve - floristic and forest nature reserve in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in Radomsko County, in Przedbórz commune. It is located on the eastern side Przeborsko-Małogoski Ranges in Przedborski Landscape Park, near the village Żeleźnica, near the border with Świętokrzyskie voivodeship, in an extremely wet area.
Geographic coordinates: 50 ° 59′N 20 ° 01′E
The reserve covers an area of 185.6 ha and was established in 1996 in order to preserve, for scientific and didactic reasons, natural ecosystems of moist deciduous forests with numerous monumental trees and species of rare and protected herbaceous plants. the terrain. In a network of protected areas The Małopolska Uplands, and even central Poland, nowhere is such a large area of wet eutrophic deciduous forests with all biodiversity. The "Czarna Rózga" reserve is an object of unique value in this network. The stands are almost exclusively of natural origin and dominate alderand, moreover, they grow aspenBirch, fir, beech, Pine, pedunculate oak, hornbeam. The ecosystem of this forest has a great regeneration power, so traces of old logging, grazing (prohibited for 60 years), etc. are rapidly disappearing.
A group of old oaks and other trees grows in the reserve. Some of them have an impressive appearance, all of them are a real decoration of the forest, they act as donors of valuable seeds and are nesting places for large birds. The most impressive are: pedunculate oaks with trunk circumferences up to 4.80 m, common beeches up to 3.40 m and hornbeams up to about 2.00 m.
The flora of the reserve consists of over 300 species of vascular plants. The most valuable are mountain plants with a few occurrences in the lowlands, such as: club moss, whorl, shining chervil, bulbous livestock, in: Broad-leaved Nerecznica. The following species of completely protected plants grow in the reserve: daffodil daffodil, common ivy, wroniec, club moss: juniper club moss and clovey) and Umbrella helper. The fauna world finds perfect living conditions here. We meet here a zigzag viper, slow worm, grass snake, tree frogand the birds constantly nest here buzzard and occasionally black stork.
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