Floristic, forest nature reserve "Wrząca" and lies in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in Sieradz district, in [[in: Błaszki Commune | commune Błaszki]], in the forest inspectorate Zloczew, in the NW part of the Orły wilderness, near the Marianów village on the Brąszewice - Wojków road. Złoczewska Upland Mesoregion. was established in 1995 and has an area of 59.10 ha.
Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 34′00 ″ N 18 ° 25′20 ″ E
The main purpose of establishing the reserve was to preserve the acidic lowland beech forest for educational and scientific purposes on the border of the natural occurrence of beech and fir.
The oldest data about the forest in which the reserve is located come from 1902. It belonged to the Wrząca estate located in the Kalisz Governorate, and in the period before World War II it was part of the Wrząca estate. The forests of this property stood out from the surrounding estates by their exemplary management.
The reserve includes a shady, tall forest beech with a poorly developed undercoat and a poor fleece. The highly compact stand consists mainly of beech. About 20% of this stand is also sessile oak. The admixture of other tree species is very low, consisting of fir, spruce, birch, aspen, pine and larch.
Currently, the oldest trees growing in the reserve are about 120 years old. These are common beeches and sessile oaks. Species such as: silver fir, Norway spruce, silver birch, aspen and plantings of Scots pine and European larch were also found here. The most magnificent beech specimens are 250 to 300 cm in circumference.
The fleece, poor due to its strong acidification and shading, has a cluster structure. They are made up of hairy hairy sedge, pill-like sedge, sheep fescue and, to a lesser extent: lily of the valley, hare oxalis, forest and swallowtail speedwell.
Among the herbaceous plants found here, the following deserve attention: the one-sided pear, the smaller pear, the pea, the juniper club and the hill sedge.
The complete absence of species of fertile habitats and the constant share of acidophilic bryophytes, in places forming extensive turfs, is characteristic. Dense clumps of fir and spruce seedlings and undergrowth are visible especially in the North. part of the reserve. The flora of such patches is rich: the share of bilberry, pineapple, hilly sedge and rowan seedlings increases. Occasionally there are juniper moss and pear one-sided and smaller. The oldest, 110-year-old beech stands with pine and sessile oak are on the eastern side of the and pd. part of the reserve in the habitats of fresh mixed forest.
Old beech trees of monumental size also grow in the vicinity of the reserve, e.g. by the road to the forester's lodge there is a beech with a circumference of 310 cm.
Type of reserve: floristic, type of reserve: biocenotic and physiocenotic, sub-type of the reserve: natural and semi-natural biocoenoses, type of ecosystem: forest and coniferous forest, sub-type of ecosystem: mixed lowland forests.
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