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Luua Arboretum

Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee

42% trees around it and 99 species recorded.

47Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungi

  • trees within 3 km42%
  • wild within 10 km64%
  • species recorded99
  • Altitude74 m

The forest around

42% 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 76%Grassland 11%Water 4%Cropland 8%Built-up 1%Trees 37%Grassland 19%Wetland 1%Water 2%Cropland 40%Built-up 1%Trees 44%Grassland 18%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 37%Built-up 1%Trees 45%Grassland 15%Wetland 1%Water 3%Cropland 35%Built-up 0%42%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km37%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km45%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees37%
  • Grassland19%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water2%
  • Cropland40%
  • Built-up1%

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

99 species recorded.

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

Lemon thyme
Lemon thymeThymus pulegioides7 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
May lily
May lilyMaianthemum bifolium4 recordsBouba at French Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora4 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Erect cinquefoil
Erect cinquefoilPotentilla erecta4 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Northern hollyfern
Northern hollyfernPolystichum lonchitis3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild basil
Wild basilClinopodium vulgare3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wall-lettuce
Wall-lettuceMycelis muralis3 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 07:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Stag's-horn Clubmoss
Stag's-horn ClubmossLycopodium clavatum2 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood club-rush
Wood club-rushScirpus sylvaticus2 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
European woodland sedge
European woodland sedgeCarex sylvatica2 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Beaked sedge
Beaked sedgeCarex rostrata2 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 16:01, 13 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bird's-nest orchid
Bird's-nest orchidNeottia nidus-avis2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

47out of 100

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

  • 42%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 64%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 99Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 74 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June.

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

  1. Jan-5°-10°52 mm
  2. Feb-4°-10°46 mm
  3. Mar1°-6°43 mm
  4. Apr8°1°47 mm
  5. May16°7°60 mm
  6. Jun19°12°96 mm
  7. Jul22°15°79 mm
  8. Aug21°14°93 mm
  9. Sep16°9°61 mm
  10. Oct8°3°71 mm
  11. Nov2°-2°71 mm
  12. Dec-2°-7°60 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Luua Arboretum.

Arboretum in Estonia

Luua Arboretum is an arboretum in Estonia.

Seen from space, 42% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 64% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

99 species have been recorded around it: 28 plants, 63 fungi, 8 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lemon thyme, May lily and Small yellow balsam.

The best time to walk is in June.

Luua mõisa kavaleridemaja
Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee

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.

Luua Arboretum 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 kmPeraküla-Aegviidu-Ähijärve haru. VI lõik: Oostriku-Elistvere
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 16car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmSihi lõkkekoht, Kassinurme lõkkekoht, Elistvere lõkkekoht
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmUdu talu, Mokko Country Hotel, Jaama puhkemaja and 2 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • restaurants 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 Luua Arboretum.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Laiuse Drumlin16 km
Lakeyas10 lakes within 15 km
Lake Kaiavere2.3 km² · 6.2 kmLake Raigastvere1.0 km² · 6.4 kmLake Kuremaa3.5 km² · 9.4 kmLake Elistvere1.3 km² · 11 kmSoitsjärv0.7 km² · 11 kmSaadjärv6.8 km² · 13 kmLake Jõemõisa1.1 km² · 13 kmLake Kaiu1.3 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Lake KuremaaBortle 2 · 8.0 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.

Luua mõisa peahoone
Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Palamuse-Luua tee Kivimäe külas 2024
Minnekon · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Luua Arboretum

Estonia

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 99Species

University of Tartu Botanical Gardens

Estonia · 30 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 61%Wild
  • 928Species

See the guide

Tamme-Lauri oak

Estonia · 81 km

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 69Species

See the guide

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden

Finland · 193 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,923Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q28750338) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species840 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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