Forest of Fontainebleau

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The forest of Fontainebleau is an important forestland of 25,000 ha. Its main part (21,500 ha) located in the department of Seine-et-Marne near the city of Fontainebleau.

Contents 1 Fauna and flora 1.1 Flore 1.2 Birds 2 In fiction

[edit] Fauna and flora

• Most numerous trees are : Oaks (44 %), Scots Pine (40 %), European Beech (10 %);
• 3,000 species of mushrooms were discovered;
• 7,000 species animals, including 5,000 species of insects.

[edit] Flore

• Tor-grass (Brachypodium pinnatum);
• Service Tree of Fontainebleau (Sorbus latifolia, national protection);
• Amelanchier ovalis, national protection;
• Juniperus communis;
• Orchids
  • Limodorum abortivum;
  • Red Helleborine (Cephalanthera rubra, national protection);
• Thalictrum minus, national protection;
• Campanula persicifolia;
• Rubia peregrina;
• Rosa pimpinellifolia;
• Cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum);
• Vincetoxicum hirundinaria;
• Trifolium rubens, national protection.

[edit] Birds

• Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major);
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor);
• Great Tit (Parus major);
• Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus);
• Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita);
• Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus);
• Phylloscopus Bonelli;
• Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla).

[edit] In fiction

• The forest is the main scene of action of the trilogy Les Fourmis of Bernard Werber.