Svankila naturreservat

A beautiful hiking trail with quartz stones at the parking lot. There's also plenty of parking. The trail runs along a lake with beautiful scenery.

A very beautiful nature reserve where you can find the odd mushroom, the earth star. It resembles a toadstool but when ripe has an outer shell that splits into lobes, making it resemble a star. In the center of the star is a so-called “smoke ball” that contains the ripe spores. Just like toadstools, earth stars have a dry, powdery spore mass that puffs out through a hole in the top of the smoke ball like a small cloud. Since the spores are formed inside the smoke ball, it must be compressed in order for them to puff out. Earth stars depend on raindrops for this – when the drops land, they compress the smoke ball, and a small cloud of spores can puff out.

Väldigt vackert naturreservat där man bl a kan hitta den udda svampen jordstjärna. Den liknar en röksvamp men har vid mognad ett yttre skal som spricker upp i flikar och får den att likna en stjärna. I stjärnans mitt finns en så kallad …