The Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills, a breathtaking 300-year-old beech, has won Poland the European Tree of the Year award ... The White Acacia in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is a 140 year-old rarity ...

The name of the preserve comes from the fact that many of the beech trees on the property appear to be eating the rocks as they grow around them. On the forest floor, some 80 species of spring ...