ミズバショウの群生地

It's a very nice place! ️

Jungle is the best! Meet a living cicada

I went to GW. It was growing up.

100,000 skunk cabbage, the largest colony in the North Tohoku region

I feel that the number of flowers is decreasing and the scale is getting smaller year by year.

It's a fairly large area. It is cheap to walk because there is a promenade. However, if you go to the end, it will be difficult to return.

Recently, due to the aging of wooden sidewalks, there are many places where you are worried about your feet. Be careful when walking as it is slippery.

I don't think you'll know the value unless you visit here when the skunk cabbage is in bloom. The marker on the map is near the slightly large parking lot with the guide map signboard on the downstream side, but the colony spreads from this area to the upstream side, and there is a parking lot where several cars can be placed well. Also, on the good side, there is a signboard of "← Waterfall Mizubasho group cloth →", so it should be a landmark. It used to be Kayaba. There is a description of Kayaba on the map of 1 / 50,000 published in the 1945's. A place that is clearly one step higher than the Gonohe River that flows right next to it forms a wetland, and skunk cabbage grows in clusters. There are large trees of Quercus crispula and alder in the original vegetation, but this is not so wetland, there are Sawagurumi, Fraxinus mandsch, alder, and Katsura trees in the Ogi field in a slightly damp place, and the slightly dry place is Japanese pampas grass. It seems that it was a thatched-roofing place with a field, Japanese pampas grass, Japanese alder, and maple trees. After that, the drainage of the area became poor for some reason (the flow that was discharging the water from the waterfall to the Gonohe River was stopped for some reason), so the flooded water progressed and the skunk cabbage became wetland. It seems that the number of skunk cabbage has increased instead of disappearing. It is also possible that the skunk cabbage was artificially increased when it was developed as a tourism resource. Sawagurumi and Fraxinus mandsch can tolerate high groundwater levels to some extent, but their tree vigor is still declining. Quercus crispula causes root rot, loses its supporting roots, and turns over and collapses. (See image) Regardless of how it became a group of skunk cabbage, it is worth watching. Park your car in the parking lot on the downstream side and proceed along the promenade well. Be careful not to step on the wooden path of the promenade as it may be damaged. At the end of the promenade, I went to the national highway, but I tried climbing the river following the sign of "← waterfall", but the waterfall was quite a view. It is regrettable that it is anonymous. I thought it would be good to call it "Bodhi Tree Waterfall" after the Ooba Bodaiju that was nearby.