I'M GREEN....
It begins like the lyrics of a well-known song written by Agnieszka Osiecka - but unfortunately that's not what I'm going to write about today. Our colleague Wojciech, already known from the post - SPRING ON THE NYSA KŁODZKA RIVER - recently told us about an interesting plant that rarely occurs in the wild in Poland - the green hellebore (Helleborus viridis). Green hellebore The matter with this hellebore is not simple. In one study I read that it is a neophyte (a plant species of foreign origin), not belonging to the native flora, which has settled here in recent times, but in another that it is an extremely rare species occurring only in a few places in Poland - so I don't know. We are lucky that the largest amounts occur in the Kaczawskie Mountains in the Ochotnica stream valley. Since it's relatively close, Asia and I, together with the professors - Gosia and Andrzej - decided to go to the indicated place. We arrived. There ...