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Dominica Botanical Gardens

Tournasol7 · CC BY 4.0

50% trees around it and 136 species recorded.

66Forestyas Score

ArboretumWild

  • trees within 3 km50%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded136

The forest around

50% 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 45%Grassland 3%Water 8%Built-up 44%Trees 50%Grassland 0%Water 47%Built-up 3%Trees 50%Grassland 0%Water 48%Built-up 1%Trees 50%Grassland 0%Water 49%Bare ground 0%Built-up 0%50%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km45%
  • 1–3 km50%
  • 3–6 km50%
  • 6–10 km50%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees50%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water47%
  • Built-up3%

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

136 species recorded.

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

Chinese Brake
Chinese BrakePteris vittata5 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Confederate-vine
Confederate-vineAntigonon leptopus3 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Bouba assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Flat-top mille graines
Flat-top mille grainesOldenlandia corymbosa3 recordsRenjusplace · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gynandropsis gynandra
Gynandropsis gynandraGynandropsis gynandra3 recordsSosicles Ennius · CC BY-SA 4.0
Acalypha indica
Acalypha indicaAcalypha indica3 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Verdolaga
VerdolagaPortulaca oleracea3 recordsZooFari · CC BY-SA 3.0
CottonVU
CottonGossypium hirsutum3 recordsChriKo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chulta
ChultaDillenia indica3 recordsMelmakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Broadleaf maidenhair
Broadleaf maidenhairAdiantum latifolium2 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cultivated tobacco
Cultivated tobaccoNicotiana tabacum2 recordsJom / Joachim Müllerchen · CC BY 2.5
Peacock Flower
Peacock FlowerCaesalpinia pulcherrima2 recordsJim Evans · CC BY-SA 4.0
West Indian woodnettle
West Indian woodnettleLaportea aestuans2 recordsSeñor Te · CC BY-SA 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.

66out of 100

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

  • 50%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 136Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to March.

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

  1. Jan26°25°61 mm
  2. Feb26°25°45 mm
  3. Mar26°25°46 mm
  4. Apr27°26°75 mm
  5. May28°26°106 mm
  6. Jun28°27°133 mm
  7. Jul28°27°157 mm
  8. Aug29°27°173 mm
  9. Sep29°27°169 mm
  10. Oct28°27°199 mm
  11. Nov28°26°161 mm
  12. Dec27°26°94 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Dominica Botanical Gardens.

Dominica Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Dominica.

Seen from space, 50% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

136 species have been recorded around it: 40 plants, 3 fungi, 88 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Chinese Brake, Confederate-vine and Flat-top mille graines.

The best time to walk is from January to March.

Dominica Botanical Gardens (3)
Tournasol7 · CC BY 4.0

Get there and walk

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.

Dominica Botanical 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

  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmPavilion with Picnictable and 6 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmMorne Bruce, View of Trafalgar Falls and 3 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmBruney's House
  • 19car parks within 3 km
  • 39places to stay within 10 kmVena's Guest House, Ma bass Guesthouse, Narakiel's Inn and 36 more
  • 32restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Dominica Botanical 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.

Peakyas28 mountains within 25 km
Morne Anglais1,122 m · volcano · 5.6 kmMorne Plat Pays960 m · volcano · 6.9 kmMorne Watt1,224 m · volcano · 8.4 kmMorne Patates9.5 kmMorne Trois Pitons1,387 m · volcano · 9.7 kmGrande Soufrière Hills12 kmMang Peak568 m · 20 kmMorne Diablotins1,447 m · volcano · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
Dominica787 km²
Cascadyas14 waterfalls within 15 km
Trafalgar Falls3.8 kmJack Falls10 kmEmerald Pool, Dominica13 kmSari-Sari Falls13 kmDernier Falls13 kmTaberi Falls13 kmTwa Bassens14 kmMorgan River Falls14 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.

Dominica Botanic Gardens 02 2025 01
Concord · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dominica Botanic Gardens 02 2025 02
Concord · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dominica Botanical Gardens (1)
Tournasol7 · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Dominica Botanical Gardens

Dominica

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 136Species

St. Lucia Botanical Gardens

Saint Lucia · 165 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 91Species

See the guide

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · 238 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 104Species

See the guide

Andromeda Botanic Gardens

Barbados · 307 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 54Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3456644) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,045 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, 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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