Šumik Primeval Forest

There are still many rocks on the slopes, which have weathered due to the effects of the weather and given particularly varied shapes of rock shelters, chairs, and tables. Further north, beyond the Verna stream, there are the Ravbar cliffs, which are even more picturesquely arranged, piled up and cracked due to erosion, as if a giant played here and built castles. The Verna stream descends from the right bank along steep cliffs and over waterfalls between Veliki and Mali Šumik to Lobnica. 

Moisture-loving trees like mountain elm, mountain maple, and ash, thrive in the virgin forest due to the coolness and moisture in the air and the long shadows. Lower down in the Lobnice gorge, you can find particularly large examples of Waldstein's thistle with lilac flowers and more than 2 m high stems of soft thistle. Even lower down in the Lobnice gorge, the otherwise rare feather fern often appears. It would be too much to list all the flora that appear in this primaeval “botanical garden.”

The protected area includes a mixed forest of beech, spruce and fir on the eastern steep side of Rebra, and the western, no less steep slope, is dominated by fir and spruce. In the forest, the communities are preserved in their original state, as they prevailed before the large-scale felling of the forest began 100 to 120 years ago.