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Georgia Georgia arboretum

Batumi Botanical Garden

Archil Kikvadze · CC BY 3.0

62% trees around it and 395 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km62%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded395
  • Altitude172 m

The forest around

62% 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 93%Water 3%Built-up 4%Trees 58%Grassland 3%Water 34%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 3%Trees 55%Grassland 1%Water 41%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%Trees 56%Grassland 0%Water 40%Built-up 4%62%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km93%
  • 1–3 km58%
  • 3–6 km55%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees58%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water34%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up3%

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

395 species recorded.

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

White Dead-nettle
White Dead-nettleLamium album39 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Hart's-tongue
Hart's-tongueAsplenium scolopendrium19 recordsErwin Gruber from Frohnleiten, Österreich, Steiermark · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cretan brake
Cretan brakePteris cretica16 recordsnaturewatchwidow · CC BY 4.0
Sweet Chestnut
Sweet ChestnutCastanea sativa16 recordsJLPC · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum9 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant9 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Heal-all
Heal-allPrunella vulgaris9 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rhododendron
RhododendronRhododendron ponticum9 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Black spleenwort
Black spleenwortAsplenium adiantum-nigrum8 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf ElderSambucus ebulus8 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major8 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Common dayflower
Common dayflowerCommelina communis6 recordsErmell · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

76out of 100

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

  • 62%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 395Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 172 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan3°-4°115 mm
  2. Feb4°-3°88 mm
  3. Mar8°0°96 mm
  4. Apr13°4°68 mm
  5. May18°9°61 mm
  6. Jun22°13°70 mm
  7. Jul24°16°68 mm
  8. Aug26°16°72 mm
  9. Sep22°13°121 mm
  10. Oct17°9°140 mm
  11. Nov10°3°139 mm
  12. Dec5°-2°127 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Batumi Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Batumi, Georgia

Batumi Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Georgia.

Seen from space, 62% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

395 species have been recorded around it: 157 plants, 3 fungi, 231 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: White Dead-nettle, Hart's-tongue and Cretan brake.

The best time to walk is in May.

Batumi, Georgia — Botanical Garden
Archil Kikvadze · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: 09:00-19:30 · ticket requiredOfficial site
  • 5 tentscampsite · 3.4 km · 11 within 10 km
  • Lahsarelaplace to stay · 1.1 km · 361 within 10 km
  • Makhinjaurinearest town · 3.0 km in a straight line
  • Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport (BUS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at BUS airport (Batumi)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Batumi Botanical 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmTwo Mountains Trail
  • 51named and notable trees within 6 kmEucalyptus viminalis, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Carya ovata and 48 more
  • 17picnic sites within 4 km
  • 23shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 28viewpoints within 5 kmSakhalvasho Raptor Watchpoint, Shuamta Raptor Watchpoint and 26 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmმტირალას ეროვნული პარკის ადმინისტრაცია
  • 6car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 km5 tents, Tsikhisdziri chasasvleli, Free camping under the pines and 8 more
  • 361places to stay within 10 kmLahsarela, ბონი, ბათუმი and 358 more
  • 21restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Batumi Botanical 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.

Peakyas31 mountains within 25 km
Gora Dzhiat9.1 kmGora Sakverniya9.6 kmGora Khechoket10 kmDagva1,143 m · 12 kmMta Chakvistavi15 kmGora Skurda17 kmMorvili1,728 m · 20 kmGora Tetrakva20 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Batumi Wheel7.7 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Other forests nearby.

Batumi Botanical Garden

Georgia

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 395Species

Sukhumi botanical garden

Georgia · 157 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 55%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 109Species

See the guide

Vanadzor Botanical Garden

Armenia · 252 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 23%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 82Species

See the guide

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Georgia · 256 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 534Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894643) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species248,686 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 atlasesPeakyas, Viewyas

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

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