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Tunisia Tunisia arboretum

Botanical garden of Tunis

Sami Mlouhi · CC BY-SA 4.0

4% trees around it and 16 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km4%
  • wild within 10 km49%
  • species recorded16

The forest around

4% 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 9%Grassland 9%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 80%Trees 4%Grassland 10%Water 1%Bare ground 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 82%Trees 5%Shrubland 0%Grassland 19%Wetland 1%Water 17%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 56%Trees 5%Shrubland 0%Grassland 19%Wetland 8%Water 21%Bare ground 4%Cropland 5%Built-up 39%4%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km4%
  • 3–6 km5%
  • 6–10 km5%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees4%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland10%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up82%

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

16 species recorded.

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

Wild Mustard
Wild MustardBrassica oleracea3 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Narrow Clover
Narrow CloverTrifolium angustifolium3 recordsHubert Laroche · CC BY 2.5
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis3 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dwarf morning-glory
Dwarf morning-gloryConvolvulus tricolor3 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Slender Oat
Slender OatAvena barbata2 recordsJose Hernandez · Public domain
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata2 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Bermuda buttercup
Bermuda buttercupOxalis pes-caprae2 recordsM ath K night and Zachi Evenor אביר המתמטיקה וצחי אבנור · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chick pea
Chick peaCicer arietinum2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple mistress
Purple mistressMoricandia arvensis2 recordsJavier martin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scarlet pimpernel
Scarlet pimpernelLysimachia arvensis2 recordsRyan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0
Centaurea siculaCentaurea sicula4 records
Echinops spinosissimusEchinops spinosissimus2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

17out of 100

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

  • 4%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 49%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 16Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan15°8°64 mm
  2. Feb15°7°50 mm
  3. Mar18°9°63 mm
  4. Apr21°11°54 mm
  5. May25°14°35 mm
  6. Jun30°18°20 mm
  7. Jul34°22°7 mm
  8. Aug34°22°21 mm
  9. Sep29°20°64 mm
  10. Oct26°17°61 mm
  11. Nov20°12°57 mm
  12. Dec16°9°66 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanical garden of Tunis.

Nature reserve in Tunisia

Botanical garden of Tunis is an arboretum in Tunisia.

Seen from space, 4% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 49% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

16 species have been recorded around it: 13 plants, 0 fungi, 3 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wild Mustard, Narrow Clover and Castor oil plant.

The best time to walk is from March to April and in November.

Tunis botanical garden photo 1
Sami Mlouhi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • دار الكشاف الزهورcampsite · 7.3 km · 1 within 10 km
  • تونس نزل الكبيرplace to stay · 2.9 km · 191 within 10 km
  • Aryanahnearest town · 1.6 km in a straight line
  • Tunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 3 km in a straight lineCar hire at TUN airport (Tunis)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.

Botanical garden of Tunis 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmمصحة الياسمين
  • 272car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmدار الكشاف الزهور
  • 191places to stay within 10 kmتونس نزل الكبير, سمرونس, نزل أريحا and 188 more
  • 239restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Botanical garden of Tunis.

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.

Peakyas21 mountains within 25 km
Jebel el Ayari6.8 kmJebel Rorof10 kmEd Dourat11 kmEl Arka11 kmByrsa12 kmJebel Bou Goufda12 kmJebel er Rorouf18 kmJebel Boukornine576 m · 23 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Byrsa12 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.

JARDIN BOTANIQUE DE TUNIS
Noomen9 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Les jardins botaniques de tunis 2
Noomen9 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tunis botanical garden photo 2
Sami Mlouhi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q28945699) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species89 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, Viewyas, Birdyas

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.