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City Botanic Gardens

Chris Olszewski · CC BY-SA 4.0

15% trees around it and 777 species recorded.

38Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km15%
  • wild within 10 km47%
  • species recorded777

The forest around

15% 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 20%Grassland 1%Water 31%Bare ground 0%Built-up 48%Trees 15%Grassland 5%Water 9%Built-up 70%Trees 24%Grassland 8%Water 5%Bare ground 0%Built-up 62%Trees 38%Grassland 11%Wetland 1%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Built-up 47%15%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km15%
  • 3–6 km24%
  • 6–10 km38%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees15%
  • Grassland5%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water9%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up70%

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

777 species recorded.

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

Black pouiVU
Black pouiJacaranda mimosifolia25 recordsKahuroa · Public domain
Gold Mohar
Gold MoharDelonix regia18 recordsAverette · CC BY-SA 3.0
Southern Silky-oak
Southern Silky-oakGrevillea robusta17 recordsMargaretRDonald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Orthosiphon aristatus
Orthosiphon aristatusOrthosiphon aristatus17 recordsNonie from Melbourne, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Gray Mangrove
Gray MangroveAvicennia marina16 recordsCEphoto, Uwe Aranas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Little quakinggrass
Little quakinggrassBriza minor15 recordsSphl · CC BY-SA 3.0
Firewheel tree
Firewheel treeStenocarpus sinuatus14 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Casliber assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Nandi Flame
Nandi FlameSpathodea campanulata14 recordsSteven Haw · CC BY 2.0
Red grass
Red grassThemeda triandra11 recordsPeripitus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fringed wattle
Fringed wattleAcacia fimbriata11 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Dlanglois assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Forked fimbry
Forked fimbryFimbristylis dichotoma10 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Forest redgum
Forest redgumEucalyptus tereticornis10 recordsEthel Aardvark · CC BY 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.

38out of 100

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

  • 15%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 47%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 777Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in July.

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

  1. Jan29°22°140 mm
  2. Feb28°22°156 mm
  3. Mar27°21°136 mm
  4. Apr25°19°83 mm
  5. May23°15°73 mm
  6. Jun20°14°88 mm
  7. Jul20°12°38 mm
  8. Aug21°12°45 mm
  9. Sep24°15°38 mm
  10. Oct26°17°81 mm
  11. Nov27°19°92 mm
  12. Dec28°21°130 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

City Botanic Gardens.

Botanical gardens in Brisbane, Australia

City Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in Australia.

Seen from space, 15% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 47% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

777 species have been recorded around it: 399 plants, 103 fungi, 237 birds and 38 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Black poui, Gold Mohar and Southern Silky-oak.

The best time to walk is in July.

Plant Form (sculpture), Brisbane 01
Chris Olszewski · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Pamphlett-Tennyson Sea Scout Groupcampsite · 6.7 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Capri By Frasierplace to stay · 0.4 km · 191 within 10 km
  • Brisbane central business districtnearest town · 0.5 km in a straight line
  • Brisbane International Airport (BNE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire at BNE airport (Brisbane)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at BNE airport (Brisbane)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

City 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmQUT to New Farm
  • 12named and notable trees within 6 kmPop's Fig, Hoop Pine, Bunya Pine and 9 more
  • 284picnic sites within 4 km
  • 471shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 42viewpoints within 5 kmBartleys Hill Lookout, Scout Place, The Lookout and 39 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmCity Botanic Gardens Vistor Information Kiosk, Brisbane Visitor Information, South Bank House and 2 more
  • 669car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmPamphlett-Tennyson Sea Scout Group
  • 191places to stay within 10 kmCapri By Frasier, Mantra South Bank, Rydges and 188 more
  • 879restaurants 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 City 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.

Peakyas54 mountains within 25 km
Eildon Hill4.9 kmMount Coot-tha Park6.3 kmWhites Hill6.5 kmToohey Mountain6.9 kmMount Thompson8.4 kmThe Summit8.4 kmEnoggera Hill8.9 kmMount Petrie170 m · 12 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Enoggera Reservoir0.4 km² · 11 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Sir Thomas Brisbane PlanetariumBortle 8 · 5.2 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Kangaroo Point Cliffs0.6 kmWheel of Brisbane0.9 kmMount Coot-tha Lookout7.1 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Boondall Wetlands326 species · 16 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
J C Slaughter Falls6.4 kmSimpson Falls7.5 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Brisbane River344 kmBreakfast CreekBulimba CreekKedron BrookOxley CreekTingalpa CreekNorman CreekEnoggera Creek

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

City botanic gardens (duck pond)
No machine-readable author provided. Lacrimosus assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Alicestreet
Original uploader was Lilywatanabe at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (01)
Batsv · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q917681) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species54,694 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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