Pictures about the nature of North-Finland: year 2007
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Pictures about the nature of North-Finland: year 2007
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An oligotrophic pond on the top of Riisitunturi fjeld, lake Kitkajärvi comes into view on the background. This pond is shallow
and peated on the shores. The pond will freeze over in the wintertime. Nevertheless some plants thrive in the water of pond, among others
cotton-grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) (on the left in picture) and bogbean (Menyanthes trifolia) (in the middle of picture). Moore: shores!,
and mires!
(The trees - spruces and pines here on the forest border are damaged by tykkysnow.
Berries of Dwarf cornel (Cornus suecica) are red in the falltime. There are in the autumn violet color on the leaves, too. The berries are
tasteless. Dwarf cornel favours maritim climate; it is common on the maritime areas in Lappland (among others on the fjelds, especially
in the mountain birch-forests) and on the nortern shores of Gulf of Bothnia.
