The Botanic Reservation Poiana cu Narcise from Saca Mountain
The Botanic Reservation is situated on the Eastern top of the Saca mountain, from the crystal massive of Rodna. It lies on the administrative territory of Rodna Veche, Bistrita-Nasaud county, close to the Valea Vinului village. You can get to the reservation by leaving from Valea Vinului to Saca Mountain, by the two roads. The first road goes to the west to the Popii Hill and the second one follows Valea Secii and then goes up on the Southern top of Dealul Popii, so that the Saca top can be reached, where there is the lent lily glade, on an altitude of 1600 meters. It is the Botanic Reservation situated on the highest altitude from our country.
It was declared reservation in the year of 2000 and lies on a surface of 5 hectares. The area is characterized by acid soils.
In the reservation, along with the lent lily, there are: Lychnis nivalis, Heracleum Carpaticum and other rare species. In the area of the reservation there is the Baia of Schneider Cave, a tourist attraction that worth seeing. Along with the vegetable elements, landscape, speologic and geomorphologic there is also the fauna. There are remarked: the bear, the Carpathian Deer, the Deer, the Eagle, the Raven.
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