Sa Minda, Sentiero Botanico Lungo (G 503 A)
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In the square, near the gate, is located a walnut tree a then ginko biloba, a mountain maple, cherry trees and fir trees. The trail continues southwards towards the rest area of Sa Minda e' Supra, near the building called "dairy" we find douglasia fir trees and black walnut trees.
Once out of the gate, almost opposite, along the trail is possibile to admire an endemic species, the ivy (Glechoma sardoa Beg.), then the trails goes along a road paved with ecological bitumen; after leaving this road, after a few tens of meters, the trails turns to the left, anf then left again onto a secondary trails; after about 120 meters the trail brings to a clearing with imposing oaks; the trail continues in a southerly direction where it is possibile to admire a cypress poplar and a Gallura willow.
After leaving the trail, near Funtana Arile, the trail continues into the forest where to spot a very rare specimen of Quercus Morisii and further east you reach a hygrophilous alder formation with the typical gallery forest; further on there are willows and the florid fern (Osmunda regalis L.).
The trail leads near the Helicopter base to reach the beech forest planted in 1914 and unique in Italy, with specimens that have already reached 20 meters in height.
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