River Toce alluvial plain
and Monte Rosso's woodland
- Difference in height: 242 m ( = 1,500 feet )
The effluent canal of Mergozzo Lake is a slow flowing water course on which sides you can see, besides the reed, typhes and water lilies. At its mouth you can find a kind of endemic water chestnut: the Trapa natans verbanensis, that, in summer, covers wide water surfaces.
The reeds thicket at the canal mouth is there present in the closed kind: consisting only of little reeds. From the stop point it is possible to see the rich bird fauna living among the reeds: mallards, crested grebes, moorhens, coots and, if you are lucky, the marsh hawk flying to hunt over the cane thicket; or you can hear the singing of the most mimetic birds like reed warblers, great reed warbler, penduline tits, reed bountings, river nightingales.
The wood upon the slopes of Monte Rosso is the peculiar one of the hill area in the region of the great lakes (from Lake of Orta to Lake of Garda): it consists of essences such as common oak, chestnut and robinia. In this underwood there are great deals of butcher’s broom, holly and yew tree, which grow in temperate and particularly wet climat.
Near the little chapel named Pianasc you find a black alder wood, peculiar of wet ground environments or, as in this case, of marshy land due to the existence of surface water beds.
In the clearings with rocky outcrops and thus with superficial soil, there is the moorland (or heath), a grass/shrub vegetation which name derives from the main kind: the heath, a small evergreen shrub with summer-autumn flowering, often mistaken for Dorset heath.
Along the path, you can see in the wood a little pond fed only by precipitations, in which water stagnation is possible thanks to waterproof mud layers: on its sides grows a typical marshy grass vegetation, mainly consisting of rush and moor grass.
All along the way you can meet a lot of centuries-old chestnut trees, that witness the past and intense use of this kind, aboveall in relation with the chestnut production, the food that allowed for centuries the survival of the people living in this land.
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