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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

Jyotishkardey · CC BY-SA 4.0

33% trees around it and 298 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km33%
  • wild within 10 km51%
  • species recorded298

The forest around

33% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 54%Water 14%Bare ground 1%Built-up 31%Trees 30%Grassland 1%Water 12%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 56%Trees 38%Grassland 2%Water 11%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 48%Trees 44%Grassland 2%Wetland 0%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 45%33%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km54%
  • 1–3 km30%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km44%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees30%
  • Grassland1%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water12%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up56%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

298 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Chinese violet
Chinese violetAsystasia gangetica9 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Turkey berry
Turkey berrySolanum torvum7 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian laurel
Indian laurelLitsea glutinosa7 recordsFrancisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain
Mahua
MahuaMadhuca longifolia6 recordsNvvchar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Phalsa
PhalsaGrewia asiatica6 recordsAsit K. Ghosh Thaumaturgist · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lathyrus oleraceus
Lathyrus oleraceusLathyrus oleraceus6 recordsLudwik Polak · CC BY-SA 4.0
Achiote
AchioteBixa orellana5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian rosewoodVU
Indian rosewoodDalbergia latifolia5 recordsWibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rougeplant
RougeplantRivina humilis5 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinaberry
ChinaberryMelia azedarach5 recordsAnna Anichkova · CC BY-SA 3.0
Asian ticktrefoil
Asian ticktrefoilGrona heterocarpos4 recordsJeevan Jose, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pride of Burma
Pride of BurmaAmherstia nobilis4 recordsTatiana Gerus · CC BY 2.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

42out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 33%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 51%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 298Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan24°10°13 mm
  2. Feb30°14°20 mm
  3. Mar35°20°31 mm
  4. Apr38°24°50 mm
  5. May37°26°144 mm
  6. Jun33°27°231 mm
  7. Jul31°26°333 mm
  8. Aug31°26°308 mm
  9. Sep30°25°259 mm
  10. Oct30°22°146 mm
  11. Nov27°17°22 mm
  12. Dec24°11°9 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden.

Botanic garden

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden is an arboretum in India.

Seen from space, 33% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 51% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

298 species have been recorded around it: 138 plants, 6 fungi, 153 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Chinese violet, Turkey berry and Indian laurel.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

Banyan Tree Botanical Garden
Jyotishkardey · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmThe Great Banyan Tree
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 158places to stay within 10 kmThe Lalit Great Eastern Kolkata, Lytton Hotel, Fairlawn Hotel and 155 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Rabindra Sarobar0.2 km² · 9.4 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Howrah Planetarium and Astronomical Research CentreBortle 9 · 5.1 kmM. P. Birla PlanetariumBortle 9 · 6.2 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Panchdeep Tower5.7 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
East Kolkata Wetlands264 species · 17 kmChintamoni Kar Bird Sanctuary209 species · 19 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Damodar River592 kmSaraswati River

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Kolkata botanical garden pathway
Jeroje at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Old bridge inside Botanical Garden
Kararkadeep · CC BY-SA 4.0
AJC Bose National Botanical Garden, Howrah, India
Sumasa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden

India

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 298Species

The Great Banyan

India · 0 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 298Species

See the guide

Sundarbans

Bangladesh · 102 km

  • 37Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 58Species

See the guide

National Botanical Garden

Bangladesh · 252 km

  • 30Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 36%Wild
  • 198Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3346386) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species20,560 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesLakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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