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The section within 1/3 mile of Jewel Hollow has lots of Mountain Laurel. What caught my interest was that there seemed to be lots of little plants with green leaves growing at the base of older trees with mostly no leaves. Mountain Laurel is evergreen, and a friend suggested this was probably a fire-damaged area where the adult trees did not make it but new plants are growing from seed.