A pygmy forest is a forest which, for pedological and geological reasons, contains only miniature trees. Pygmy forests may occur over various world locations with notable occurrences being noted in the California coastal terraces and inner coastal mountains of Northern California and the Ross of Mull on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, as example locations.
A variant of the pygmy forest is sometimes called elfin forest in parts of Southern California, Mexico, and Central America.
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