Brunch in the Forest

The forest of Elatia. The legendary Cara Dere. 700,000 acres of orchard vegetation on the Greek-Bulgarian border, on the golden section of the pan-European and Mediterranean climate zone, with spruce (Picea abies) at its southern limit. Since we are talking about spruce to say that it is a type of fir that is found mainly in the Nordic countries, but in Greece we will find it only here. These are the tallest trees that can be found in our country, their height exceeds 50 meters and reaches up to 60 or even 65 meters. Its shape is very characteristic creating with its branches and needles hanging down fringes. Its bark is used in tanning and its resin is known as Burgundy resin. It is not only the spruce that makes the Kara Dere forest unique. It is also the only birch forest in Greece (I will mention below), it is the beeches, the oaks, the black pines, the chestnuts, the maples, the cedars, the fraxes, the alders, the anchovies, the wild roses, the bilberries, the forest pine etc. The forest pine is found only here. It is a very tall tree with a completely vertical trunk that brings color to the tile and has small pine cones.