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The Boże Oko Reserve is located in Czarnocin, within the area of the St. Anna Mountain Landscape Park and within the boundaries of the Natura 2000 Site St. Anna Mountain. Its main task is to protect beech forest communities with a character close to natural. Acidic low beech forests predominate here, and over most of the area -- fertile low beech forest. The tree stand is composed mainly of impressive beech trees, which can reach ages of 150-170 years. Among protected plant species, two orchids are particularly valuable: the broad-leaved helleborine and the lesser butterfly orchid. Historical data also indicate the presence of beech polypore, a fungus of the polypore family, developing on dead wood of deciduous trees. The name of the reserve alludes to the nearby chapel Boże Oko, whose origins date back to the fifteenth century. According to one legend, Saint Anna appeared in this place, patroness of, among others, mothers, spouses, widows, bakers, and sailors. Another account mentions a forester who saw a triangular sign of Boże Oko manifest to him during a hunt.