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Tamme-Lauri oak

Ingvar Pärnamäe · Public domain

56% trees around it and 69 species recorded.

56Forestyas Score

Notable treeFungi

  • trees within 3 km56%
  • wild within 10 km78%
  • species recorded69
  • Altitude146 m

The forest around

56% 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 47%Grassland 32%Cropland 20%Built-up 1%Trees 57%Grassland 23%Water 2%Cropland 18%Trees 56%Grassland 19%Wetland 1%Water 2%Cropland 22%Built-up 0%Trees 51%Grassland 24%Wetland 1%Water 2%Cropland 22%Built-up 0%56%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km47%
  • 1–3 km57%
  • 3–6 km56%
  • 6–10 km51%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees57%
  • Grassland23%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water2%
  • Cropland18%
  • Built-up0%

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

69 species recorded.

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

Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria14 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cow Parsley
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
British timothy
British timothyPhleum paniculatum4 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Common Sorrel
Common SorrelRumex acetosa2 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Achillea setacea
Achillea setaceaAchillea setacea2 recordsDon Pedro28 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Germander SpeedwellVeronica chamaedrys9 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

56out of 100

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

  • 56%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 78%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 69Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 146 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and from August to September.

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

  1. Jan-5°-10°53 mm
  2. Feb-4°-10°46 mm
  3. Mar1°-6°44 mm
  4. Apr9°0°49 mm
  5. May16°6°61 mm
  6. Jun20°11°94 mm
  7. Jul22°14°78 mm
  8. Aug21°12°92 mm
  9. Sep16°8°60 mm
  10. Oct8°2°74 mm
  11. Nov2°-2°72 mm
  12. Dec-2°-7°59 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tamme-Lauri oak.

Remarkable tree in Estonia; thickest and oldest tree in Estonia

Tamme-Lauri oak is a notable tree in Estonia.

Seen from space, 56% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 78% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

69 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 63 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bishop's goutweed, Cow Parsley and British timothy.

The best time to walk is from May to June and from August to September.

Tamme-Lauri tamm2
Ingvar Pärnamäe · Public domain

Get there and walk

  • Kooraste Suurjärve lõkkekohtcampsite · 6.7 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Kooraste metsamajaplace to stay · 4.5 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Vana-Antslanearest town · 6.3 km in a straight line
  • Tartu Airport (TAY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 44 km in a straight lineCar hire at TAY airport (Tartu)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.

Tamme-Lauri oak 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

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmTamme-Lauri tamm, Mäe-Lehtsoo tamm
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 9car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmKooraste Suurjärve lõkkekoht, Kooraste Kõrgeperve lõkkekoht, Kooraste Kõverjärve lõkkekoht and 3 more
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmKooraste metsamaja, Truuta puhkemaja, Vidrike puhkemaja and 3 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Tamme-Lauri oak.

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.

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Kungusõ Hill162 m · 3.8 kmVäike Munamägi208 m · 14 kmHarimägi211 m · 15 kmLaanemägi212 m · 15 kmApteekrimägi169 m · 16 kmKuutsemägi217 m · 19 kmAnumägi89 m · 23 kmPrigendimägi95 m · 23 km
Lakeyas12 lakes within 15 km
Uhtjärv0.4 km² · 2.5 kmLake Restu-Madissõ0.4 km² · 6.2 kmSuurjärv0.4 km² · 6.3 kmLake Lõõdla0.8 km² · 6.6 kmLake Vahtsõkivi0.5 km² · 9.7 kmLake Nüpli0.2 km² · 14 kmLake Jõksi0.6 km² · 14 kmPühajärv2.6 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Lake AheruBortle 2 · 29 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.

Tamme-Lauri tamm suvepäeval
Abrget47j · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tamme-lauri tamm õhtuvalguses
Martin Suuroja · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tammelauri Tamm.
Olemiku · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Tamme-Lauri oak

Estonia

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

University of Tartu Botanical Gardens

Estonia · 53 km

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

See the guide

Luua Arboretum

Estonia · 81 km

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

See the guide

National Botanic Garden of Latvia

Latvia · 177 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 503Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3736402) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species739 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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