Domokos Tamás szerk.: Pro Natura. A Dél-Tiszántúl természeti értékei (Békéscsaba, Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, 1999)

Riverine or gallery forest By the end of the last century the giant trees standing in the pristine gallery forests along the meandering Körös Rivers were all felled. The still existing isolated, island-like stands - their presence is proved to be continuous from the conquest of Hungarian tribes - at Doboz, Gyulavár and Bélmegyer are perishing. In the remaining stands of hard-wood gallery forests on the higher elevations of the flood-plain the following tree species made up the canopy layer: Pedunculate Oak /Quercus robur/, Pannonian Ash /Fraxinus angustifolia subs, pannonica/, Fluttering Elm /Ulmus laevis/, and occasionally Wild Pear /Pyrus pyraster/, Midland Hawthorn/ Crataegus laevigata/ Tatarian Maple /Acer tataricum/ is also found in the canopy layer. The majority of forests planted in the places of former gallery forests can be categorised as near natural forests. Their diverse undergrowth still conserves a lot of valuable forest plants. In the Dobozi forest one can find the Austrian Squill /Scilla vindobonensis /, which is rare in the whole of the Great Hungarian Plain. The hardwood riparian forests boast with the following plant species: Goldilocks Buttercup /Ranunculus auricomus/, Narrow-leafed Helleborine /Cephalanthera longifolia/, Common Twayblade /Listera ovata/, Adder'stongue /Ophioglossum vulgatum/, Lesser Butterfly-orchid /Platanthera bifolia/, Scopoli's Figwort /Scrophularia scopolii/. Szeghalom, Hosszú-erdő Doboz: Scilla vindobonensis, tavaszi csillagvirág