Temperate Rainforest - Green Wonderland
One of Scotland's best-kept secrets is that we have rainforests! Originally covering much of the West Coast, only tiny fragments of these luxuriant moss-rich ecosystems remain today. Inland, small areas of rainforest flourish in humid gorges in glens such as Affric.
 Moss-covered boulders and rowan trees (Sorbus aucuparia) in temperate rainforest in the Affric River gorge.  Pendulous wing-moss (Antitrichia curtipendula) on a young hazel (Corylus avellana) - this moss is abundant in the rainforest.  Mosses carpet the rocks and trees in sheltered hollows like this. |
 Rowan tree festooned with ferns and mosses in the Affric River gorge.  Tree lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria), growing here on a rowan trunk, thrives in the humid rainforest environment. |
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