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Neigembos
Sign in to saveThe Neigembos is a 72-hectare nature and forest area in Meerbeke (Ninove) that is protected in Europe as part of the Natura 2000 Habitats Directive area 'Forests of the Flemish Ardennes and other South Flemish forests'. It is, just like the Sonian Forest, a remnant of the old Coal Forest. The forest covers a height difference of 20 to 90m above sea level on the border between the Flemish Ardennes and the Pajottenland. Most of the Neigembos forest is a forest reserve. == Flora == The Neigembos has a tree stock of mainly beech and to a lesser extent oak and ash. On the more acidic soils, Pterid
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The Neigembos is a 72-hectare nature and forest area in Meerbeke (Ninove) that is protected in Europe as part of the Natura 2000 Habitats Directive area 'Forests of the Flemish Ardennes and other South Flemish forests'. It is, just like the Sonian Forest, a remnant of the old Coal Forest. The forest covers a height difference of 20 to 90m above sea level on the border between the Flemish Ardennes and the Pajottenland. Most of the Neigembos forest is a forest reserve.
== Flora == The Neigembos has a tree stock of mainly beech and to a lesser extent oak and ash. On the more acidic soils, Pteridium aquilinum, lily of the valley grows. Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Allium ursinum, Anemonoides nemorosa and Lamium galeobdolon grow on the loamy soils in spring. In the western part of the forest (Vriezenbos) grows black alder, ash, marsh marigold, giant horsetail, Cardamine amara, Chrysosplenium oppositifolium and Chrysosplenium alternifolium.
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