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Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge — 112,000 acres straddling the VA-NC line. Atlantic white cedar, bald cypress, tupelo, red maple, and loblolly pine over peat soils. Lake Drummond at the center. Unique "pocosin" wetland ecology with Atlantic white cedar stands — a southern-appalachian species reaching its eastern limit here. Oyster mushroom year-round on dying cedars and tupelo; chicken-of-the-woods on water oak; summer chanterelles on drier hummocks.
Updated Apr 19, 6:21 PM MT
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