Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods one side valley, there is a small population of small-leaved lime, "Tilia cordata", which occurs here close to its northern limit and at an unusually high altitude. On base-rich soils, the woodland typically consists of ash, "Fraxinus excelsior", and wych elm, "Ulmus glabra", over an understorey of hazel, "Corylus avellana", and bird cherry, "Prunus padus", and a rich ground flora that includes lady-fern, "Athyrium filix-femina", male fern, "Dryopteris filix-mas", and hard shield-fern, "Polystichum aculeatum". On more acid soils, sessile oak, "Quercus petraea", and birch, "Betula sp.", are dominant. The under-storey, of hazel, holly, "Ilex aquifolium", rowan, "Sorbus aucuparia", and hawthorn,
Mountain Ash RFC Mountain Ash RFC Mountain Ash RFC is a Welsh rugby union team from the town of Mountain Ash, in the Cynon Valley, South Wales. Mountain Ash RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues. The team was founded in 1875 at a meeting in the Mountain Ash Inn, but their first game in earnest was not until 1891, against Swansea at the Washery Field. Some of their early fixtures were against Llanelli, Cardiff and Newport. Mountain Ash provided their first Wales international in 1892, when Frank Mills was selected for