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Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore

Chidambara · CC BY-SA 4.0

21% trees around it and 304 species recorded.

36Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km21%
  • wild within 10 km24%
  • species recorded304
  • Altitude907 m

The forest around

21% 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 27%Shrubland 1%Grassland 0%Water 3%Cropland 1%Built-up 67%Trees 20%Shrubland 0%Grassland 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 78%Trees 18%Shrubland 1%Grassland 1%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 77%Trees 19%Shrubland 4%Grassland 2%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 70%21%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km27%
  • 1–3 km20%
  • 3–6 km18%
  • 6–10 km19%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees20%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up78%

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

304 species recorded.

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

Lemon Drop Mangosteen
Lemon Drop MangosteenGarcinia madruno25 recordsChris Hind · CC BY 3.0
Kapok
KapokBombax ceiba11 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Mango
MangoMangifera indica11 recordsWalter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by John Smith (1798 - 1888) · Public domain
Weeping bottlebrush
Weeping bottlebrushCallistemon viminalis9 recordsPëter 1968 User:Peter Greenwell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kapok
KapokCeiba pentandra9 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cannonball tree
Cannonball treeCouroupita guianensis8 recordsRanjithsiji · CC BY-SA 3.0
American Sweetgum
American SweetgumLiquidambar styraciflua8 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0
GarciniaVU
GarciniaGarcinia indica8 recordsSubray Hegde · CC BY 1.0
Duabanga grandiflora
Duabanga grandifloraDuabanga grandiflora8 recordsFabricio Carvalho da Silva · CC0
Camphor laurel
Camphor laurelCinnamomum camphora7 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden cosmos
Garden cosmosCosmos bipinnatus7 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Peanut
PeanutArachis hypogaea7 recordsMunkaila Sulemana · 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.

36out of 100

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

  • 21%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 24%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 304Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 907 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in December.

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

  1. Jan29°14°2 mm
  2. Feb32°15°4 mm
  3. Mar35°19°17 mm
  4. Apr35°21°57 mm
  5. May33°21°110 mm
  6. Jun29°20°76 mm
  7. Jul28°19°100 mm
  8. Aug28°19°112 mm
  9. Sep28°19°152 mm
  10. Oct27°18°141 mm
  11. Nov26°16°56 mm
  12. Dec26°14°15 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore.

Botanical garden in Bangalore, India

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore is an arboretum in India, 907 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 21% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 24% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

304 species have been recorded around it: 123 plants, 0 fungi, 179 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lemon Drop Mangosteen, Kapok and Mango.

The best time to walk is in December.

Entry gate of Lalbagh
Chidambara · 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.

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore 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 kmPostal Heritage Trail
  • 215named and notable trees within 6 kmTree 2189, Banyan Tree, neem and 212 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 126shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmHarini Express, Hammock Holidays
  • 176car parks within 3 km
  • 704places to stay within 10 kmCanara Bank Holiday Home, YMCA Hostel, Radha Krishna Delux Lodge and 701 more
  • 706restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Shrungagiri Sri Shanmukha Swamy Temple7.8 kmHuttanhalli Betta25 km
Lakeyas5 lakes within 15 km
Ulsoor Lake0.3 km² · 4.9 kmMadiwala Lake0.4 km² · 5.5 kmBellandur Lake1.8 km² · 9.1 kmBegur Lake0.3 km² · 9.4 kmRachenahalli Lake0.3 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, BengaluruBortle 9 · 3.9 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.

Bombax LalBagh
Chrishibbard7 at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Lake - Lal Bagh, Bangalore II.
Tysonjp · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lalbagh Garden Beauty
Augustus Binu / www.dreamsparrow.net / facebook · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore

India

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 24%Wild
  • 304Species

Turahalli Forest

India · 10 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 400Species

See the guide

Dodda Alada Mara

India · 22 km

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 109Species

See the guide

Thimmamma Marrimanu

India · 144 km

  • 13Forestyas Score
  • 3%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 15Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q200711) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species94,037 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

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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