Mountain Ay-Nikola
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At the end of the summer bunches of small scarlet berries decorate thorny slanting branches. Farther the path goes through the thick mixed forest, where maple, guelder rose, evergreen shrubs of butcher's boom and jasmine grow together with Crimean pine-tree, downy and rock oak-tree and cornelian cherry. On the upper mountain storey the beauty of relic plants - tall juniper and small-fruited strawberry-tree - complement magnificence of the pine-tree forest. Some trunks are more than 50-80 sm in diameter. Undoubtedly, the age of these trees reaches hundred of years. On the western "shoulder" of Ay-Nikola, on the height of 300m, in a small romantic place, shielded by the rock from the south and by steep mountainside with ancient masonry from the north, grows one of the oldest on the peninsula strawberry-tree. Ten large and small branches, each of which looks like an independent tree, branch off the thickset trunk, 4 m in girth. This tree is not less than a thousand years old, but it is developing and bearing fruits well.