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Guilty Chinese Scholartree

Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0

12% trees around it and 166 species recorded.

27Forestyas Score

Notable treeBirds

  • trees within 3 km12%
  • wild within 10 km22%
  • species recorded166
  • Altitude54 m

The forest around

12% 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 20%Water 8%Built-up 73%Trees 11%Water 3%Built-up 85%Trees 20%Grassland 0%Water 1%Built-up 79%Trees 21%Grassland 1%Water 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 76%12%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km11%
  • 3–6 km20%
  • 6–10 km21%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees11%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water3%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up85%

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

166 species recorded.

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

Leptopus chinensis
Leptopus chinensisLeptopus chinensis8 recordsDaderot · CC0
Sorghum
SorghumSorghum bicolor6 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Pethan assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sacred lotus
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera4 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese cork oak
Chinese cork oakQuercus variabilis3 recordsVelela · Public domain
Chinese Chaste-tree
Chinese Chaste-treeVitex negundo3 recordsDoronenko · CC BY 2.5
Broomcorn millet
Broomcorn milletPanicum miliaceum2 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oat
OatAvena sativa2 recordsSendelbach ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lopsided oat
Lopsided oatAvena strigosa2 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
Cultivated garlic
Cultivated garlicAllium sativum2 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mung bean
Mung beanVigna radiata2 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Italian millet
Italian milletSetaria italica2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Marknesbitt assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Garden tomatoSolanum lycopersicum15 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

27out of 100

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

  • 12%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 22%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 166Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 54 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan1°-11°2 mm
  2. Feb4°-8°6 mm
  3. Mar13°-2°9 mm
  4. Apr22°5°24 mm
  5. May29°12°38 mm
  6. Jun32°18°84 mm
  7. Jul32°21°151 mm
  8. Aug31°19°108 mm
  9. Sep26°13°64 mm
  10. Oct19°5°30 mm
  11. Nov9°-3°14 mm
  12. Dec1°-9°2 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Guilty Chinese Scholartree.

Tree in Beijing

Guilty Chinese Scholartree is a notable tree in China.

Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 22% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

166 species have been recorded around it: 13 plants, 12 fungi, 138 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Leptopus chinensis, Sorghum and Sacred lotus.

The best time to walk is in October.

20170507 Place of death of the Chongzhen Emperor
Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • 中心草坪东侧林下帐篷区campsite · 11 km · 4 within 10 km
  • 国际艺苑大酒店place to stay · 1.2 km · 929 within 10 km
  • Jingshannearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
  • Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 km in a straight line

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.

Guilty Chinese Scholartree 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 km环二环绿道
  • 21named and notable trees within 6 km古树（二级）, 银杏, 腊梅 and 18 more
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 82shelters and huts within 6 km湖心小亭, 爽心亭, 瞻亭 and 79 more
  • 8viewpoints within 5 km青云阁 and 7 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 92car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 km中心草坪东侧林下帐篷区, 大舞台西南侧林下帐篷区, 大湖西侧林下帐篷区 and 1 more
  • 929places to stay within 10 km国际艺苑大酒店, 王府半岛酒店, 北京丽晶酒店 and 926 more
  • 719restaurants 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 Guilty Chinese Scholartree.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Jingshan Hill0.2 kmLongevity Hill14 kmJade Spring Hill100 m · 15 kmBaiwangshan Forest Park17 kmFragrant Hills20 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Bayi Hu0.3 km² · 6.7 kmKunming Lake1.3 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Beijing Ancient ObservatoryBortle 9 · 3.6 kmBeijing PlanetariumBortle 9 · 5.5 kmNational Astronomical Observatory of ChinaBortle 9 · 9.1 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Beijing Great Wheel8.0 kmBeijing Olympic Tower9.3 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.

Guilty Chinese Scholartree
EditQ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Guiltyscholartree
Clement Lee · CC BY 3.0
Jingshan - Styphnolobium japonicum
Shizhao · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Guilty Chinese Scholartree

China

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 22%Wild
  • 166Species

China National Botanical Garden (North Garden)

China · 17 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 73%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 207Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1554094) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,010 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas

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
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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