1. In our forest live :
Castanea sativa
• Châtaignier (french), chestnut tree (english), kasztan (polish)
How to recognize it ?
Bark is smooth and grey when young, and
becomes brown-blach, thick and cracked when
old,
Buds are breown-red, eg-shaped
Alternate, big, feathered, pubescent leaves, with
vein on the lower face
Male flowers are long yellow catkins ; chestnut
shells are spiked.
This tree is so common in our region that the
Conseil Régional ( Region council) decided to
take the leaf of chestnut tree for symbol. The
sweet chestnuts are eaten at the season, grilled
or boiled ; in the XIXth century it was a current
way if eat for people. Nowadays family feel the
pleasure to walk in the forests and gather them.
3. quercus rubra, chêne rouge d’Amérique, red oak.
How can you recognize it ?
It has a grey, smooth bark , alternate leaves, quite large (12-20 cm), with 7-9 lobes, finished by
acute tips.
4. fagus sylvatica, hêtre, beech.
How can you recognize it ?
Bark is very smooth and silver coloured buds are slender and sharp , brown and bright.
Leaves : alernate,
5. larix decidua, (latin ), mélèze (french), larch (english)
An uncommon resinous tree which has needles like every conifer but loses its
leaves during automn and winter, and gets coloured of red and orange in automn.
6. Dryopteris filix mas, fougère mâle, fern.
It likes acid soils. Un ancient and quite magical recipe gives the advice to put these
leaves under the bed’s mattress of children who have problems of bedwetting in order to
9. 3 BIRDS OF LIMOUSIN
Pic
épeichette.
Dendrocops minor. Lesser Spotted
woodpecker
This bird likes keeping in the top of
big trees such as oaksand fir trees.
He eats insects and larvas and is 15
cm tall.
10. Rougegorge familier . Erithacus rubecula. European Robin.
He likes forests of both leaf and conifers with a lots of trees, and is common in gardens.
He eats insects and spiders and small fruits in autumn and winter. 14 cm tall
11. LA CHOUETTE HULOTTE. Strix Aluco. Tawny Owl.
Likes les lierres épais and big forests. Eats mice, rats, voles, earth worms, beetles and
little birds in the night. 43 cm tall.
