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Georgia Georgia arboretum

Sukhumi botanical garden

Игорь С · CC BY 2.5

55% trees around it and 109 species recorded.

67Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km55%
  • wild within 10 km97%
  • species recorded109

The forest around

55% 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 60%Water 4%Built-up 37%Trees 54%Grassland 3%Water 28%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 14%Trees 59%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 30%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 5%Trees 59%Grassland 2%Water 38%Bare ground 0%Built-up 0%55%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km60%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km59%
  • 6–10 km59%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Grassland3%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water28%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up14%

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

109 species recorded.

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

Great Horsetail
Great HorsetailEquisetum telmateia7 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Hart's-tongue
Hart's-tongueAsplenium scolopendrium5 recordsErwin Gruber from Frohnleiten, Österreich, Steiermark · CC BY-SA 2.0
Melon
MelonCucumis melo5 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Pigeon Berry
Pigeon BerryPhytolacca americana5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Primrose
PrimrosePrimula vulgaris5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Poverty brome
Poverty bromeBromus sterilis4 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 19:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sessile Oak
Sessile OakQuercus petraea4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Purple Viper's-bugloss
Purple Viper's-buglossEchium plantagineum4 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sticky nightshade
Sticky nightshadeSolanum sisymbriifolium4 recordsHubert Śmietanka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Wild Carrot
Wild CarrotDaucus carota4 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common beet
Common beetBeta vulgaris4 recordsWalther Otto Müller · Public domain
Black maidenhair
Black maidenhairAdiantum capillus-veneris3 recordsBalles2601 · 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.

67out of 100

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

  • 55%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 109Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

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. Jan4°-1°108 mm
  2. Feb4°-1°96 mm
  3. Mar7°2°112 mm
  4. Apr12°5°79 mm
  5. May18°11°77 mm
  6. Jun22°15°77 mm
  7. Jul25°18°73 mm
  8. Aug26°18°66 mm
  9. Sep22°15°104 mm
  10. Oct17°10°124 mm
  11. Nov11°5°114 mm
  12. Dec6°1°108 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sukhumi botanical garden.

Sukhumi botanical garden is an arboretum in Georgia.

Seen from space, 55% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

109 species have been recorded around it: 81 plants, 0 fungi, 22 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Great Horsetail, Hart's-tongue and Melon.

The best time to walk is in May.

Botanical garden.Sukhum
Игорь С · CC BY 2.5

Get there and walk

  • Артхаcampsite · 4.2 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Отель «Олимп»place to stay · 0.6 km · 110 within 10 km
  • Besletinearest town · 2.1 km in a straight line
  • Vladislav Ardzinba Sukhum International Airport (SUI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight lineCar hire at KUT airport (Kopitnari)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.

Sukhumi 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmЭвкалипт "Сердце"
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmкрасивый вид на г. Сухум, Заросшая площадка, Вокруг лес and 1 more
  • 21car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmАртха, Палаточный лагерь ДЖУСА HOME, Garuda Glamping Abkhazia and 3 more
  • 110places to stay within 10 kmОтель «Олимп», Рица, Гранд Отель Сухум and 107 more
  • 95restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Sukhumi 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.

Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Gora Anykhapaara5.3 kmKhrebet Gurzul'skiy16 kmAkhupachi1,381 m · 17 kmChumkuzba2,081 m · 18 kmMount Iverian344 m · 20 kmApiancha1,060 m · 21 kmGora Sakharnaya Golova22 kmKhrebet Kech25 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
New Athos Cave183 m · 20 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.

Sukhumi Botanical garden entrance
This photo was taken by Anton Zelenov . Please credit this with : Photo : Anton Zelenov in · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sukhumi botanical garden main alley
Alaexis · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bamboo grove Sukhumi
Alaexis · CC BY-SA 2.5

Other forests nearby.

Sukhumi botanical garden

Georgia

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

Batumi Botanical Garden

Georgia · 157 km

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

See the guide

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Georgia · 344 km

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

See the guide

Vanadzor Botanical Garden

Armenia · 377 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2634943) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species672 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, Cavernyas

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

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