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Christchurch Botanic Gardens

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18% trees around it and 1,056 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungi

  • trees within 3 km18%
  • wild within 10 km57%
  • species recorded1,056

The forest around

18% 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 38%Grassland 22%Cropland 3%Built-up 37%Trees 16%Grassland 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 79%Trees 23%Grassland 17%Wetland 0%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 56%Trees 21%Shrubland 0%Grassland 38%Wetland 1%Water 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 8%Built-up 24%18%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km23%
  • 6–10 km21%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up79%

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

1,056 species recorded.

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

Senecio skirrhodon
Senecio skirrhodonSenecio skirrhodon126 recordsP. J. de Lange · CC BY 4.0
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris89 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cabbage tree
Cabbage treeCordyline australis86 recordsKahuroa · Public domain
Senecio quadridentatus
Senecio quadridentatusSenecio quadridentatus81 recordsKevin Thiele from Perth, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Purple Toadflax
Purple ToadflaxLinaria purpurea77 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus59 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Butterfly-bush
Butterfly-bushBuddleja davidii57 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Wall-lettuce
Wall-lettuceMycelis muralis56 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 07:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coprosma robusta
Coprosma robustaCoprosma robusta41 recordsRudolph89 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Melicytus ramiflorus
Melicytus ramiflorusMelicytus ramiflorus38 recordsKahuroa · Public domain
Chenopodium album
Chenopodium albumChenopodium album36 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Totara
TotaraPodocarpus totara34 recordsTomas Sobek · 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.

43out of 100

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

  • 18%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 57%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,056Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in November.

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

  1. Jan24°11°67 mm
  2. Feb23°11°58 mm
  3. Mar21°10°61 mm
  4. Apr17°7°76 mm
  5. May14°5°79 mm
  6. Jun10°3°80 mm
  7. Jul10°2°72 mm
  8. Aug11°3°70 mm
  9. Sep14°4°57 mm
  10. Oct16°6°78 mm
  11. Nov19°8°68 mm
  12. Dec22°10°77 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Christchurch Botanic Gardens.

Botanical gardens in New Zealand

Christchurch Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in New Zealand.

Seen from space, 18% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 57% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,056 species have been recorded around it: 855 plants, 133 fungi, 64 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Senecio skirrhodon, Groundsel and Cabbage tree.

The best time to walk is in November.

Albert Edward Oak, Botanic Gardens 008
Schwede66 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 07:00-18:30, 21:00-21:00 · free entryOfficial site
  • Amber Parkcampsite · 3.2 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Chateau on the Park - Christchurch, a DoubleTree by Hiltonplace to stay · 0.9 km · 186 within 10 km
  • Christchurchnearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
  • Christchurch International Airport (CHC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight lineCar hire at CHC airport (Christchurch)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.

Christchurch Botanic Gardens 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmC360f Avonhead Gardens, C360g Opawaho Divide, Kowhai Walking Track and 3 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmThe Lone Oak, Oak trees, The Albert Edward Oak and 4 more
  • 192picnic sites within 4 km
  • 96shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmWooden Seat, Planetable, seat and 1 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmMetroinfo Counter
  • 1,314car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmAmber Park, Tasman Holiday Parks - Christchurch, Christchurch Kiwi Holiday Park and Motels and 5 more
  • 186places to stay within 10 kmChateau on the Park - Christchurch, a DoubleTree by Hilton, Bellagio Motel, Southern Comfort Motel and 183 more
  • 383restaurants 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 Christchurch Botanic Gardens.

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.

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Te Upoko-o-Kurī / Witch Hill421 m · 8.3 kmTe Heru-o-Kahukura / Sugarloaf494 m · 8.4 kmTe Poho-o-Tamatea405 m · 9.0 kmMount Cavendish445 m · 10 kmTauhinukorokio / Mount Pleasant499 m · 11 kmŌrongomai / Cass Peak545 m · 12 kmMount Bradley855 m · 20 kmThe Monument711 m · 20 km
Islandyasthe island
South Island150,437 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Townsend ObservatoryBortle 9 · 0.7 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Cracroft Caverns4.9 kmMoncks Cave10 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Brice Falls10 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.

Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Avon river 2016-02-04
Szilas · Public domain
Christchurch Botanic Gardens, 2008
Bernard Spragg. NZ · CC0
Christchurch Botanic Gardens 16
Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Christchurch Botanic Gardens

New Zealand

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 1,056Species

Craigieburn Forest Park

New Zealand · 100 km

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 22%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 71Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1186086) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species37,870 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, Islandyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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