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Hryshko National Botanical Garden

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31% trees around it and 765 species recorded.

49Forestyas Score

ArboretumWildlife

  • trees within 3 km31%
  • wild within 10 km60%
  • species recorded765
  • Altitude151 m

The forest around

31% 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 59%Grassland 3%Water 3%Built-up 35%Trees 28%Grassland 2%Wetland 1%Water 22%Bare ground 0%Built-up 47%Trees 42%Grassland 2%Wetland 0%Water 12%Bare ground 0%Built-up 44%Trees 42%Grassland 10%Wetland 2%Water 8%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 38%31%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km59%
  • 1–3 km28%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees28%
  • Grassland2%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water22%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up47%

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

765 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica39 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring fumewort
Spring fumewortCorydalis solida39 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Common hop
Common hopHumulus lupulus35 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Rasbak assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba34 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common mallow
Common mallowMalva sylvestris31 recordsKöhler, F. E. (Franz Eugen) · Public domain
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur29 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Hollowroot
HollowrootCorydalis cava29 recordsJohann Jaritz · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Matrimony vine
Matrimony vineLycium barbarum28 recordsSten Porse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Tumble Weed
Common Tumble WeedAmaranthus retroflexus24 recordsLynk media · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lesser Celandine
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna24 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common violet
Common violetViola odorata21 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 2.5
European mistletoe
European mistletoeViscum album20 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 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.

49out of 100

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

  • 31%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 60%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 765Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 151 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-9°43 mm
  2. Feb-1°-8°42 mm
  3. Mar6°-3°42 mm
  4. Apr14°4°41 mm
  5. May21°10°67 mm
  6. Jun24°14°73 mm
  7. Jul27°16°64 mm
  8. Aug27°15°50 mm
  9. Sep21°10°48 mm
  10. Oct13°4°50 mm
  11. Nov5°-1°45 mm
  12. Dec-1°-6°50 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hryshko National Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Kyiv, Ukraine

Hryshko National Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Ukraine.

Seen from space, 31% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 60% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

765 species have been recorded around it: 623 plants, 33 fungi, 93 birds and 16 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Spring fumewort and Common hop.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Kiev BotanicalGardens lilacs
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • НСК Олімпійськийcampsite · 3.9 km · 17 within 10 km
  • Предславаplace to stay · 2.6 km · 253 within 10 km
  • Zvirynetsnearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
  • Gomel Airport (GME)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 237 km in a straight lineCar hire at KBP airport (Boryspil)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at KBP airport (Boryspil)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.

Hryshko National Botanical Garden 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmGoloseevo Trail Half Marathon, Інтерактивна екостежка, Еко Труханів піший
  • 34named and notable trees within 6 km2 дерева, Дуб Вєтрова, Дуб Рильського and 31 more
  • 21picnic sites within 4 km
  • 218shelters and huts within 6 kmКокорівська альтанка and 217 more
  • 60viewpoints within 5 kmКриша, Кладовище підйомних кранів and 58 more
  • 14visitor centres within 6 kmTour Info Kyiv, ANEX Tour, Турагенція Щасливий квиток and 11 more
  • 284car parks within 3 km
  • 17campsites within 10 kmНСК Олімпійський, Галявина Протасового яру, Бухта Колумба and 14 more
  • 253places to stay within 10 kmПредслава, Мир, Mini Hostel Kiev and 250 more
  • 313restaurants 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 Hryshko National Botanical Garden.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Batyieva Hora5.1 kmUzdykhalnytsia hill6.2 kmKlynets6.3 kmSchekavytcya7.4 km
Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Sribnyi Kil0.5 km² · 5.2 kmSoniachne Lake, Kyiv0.4 km² · 5.4 kmNebrezh Lake, Kyiv0.5 km² · 5.9 kmMartyshiv Lake, Kyiv0.2 km² · 6.0 kmVyrlytsia Lake, Kyiv1.0 km² · 7.1 kmZaplavne Lake, Kyiv0.7 km² · 10 kmAlmazne Lake1.5 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Kyiv PlanetariumBortle 9 · 3.8 kmAstronomical Observatory of Kyiv UniversityBortle 9 · 6.3 kmMain Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of UkraineBortle 7 · 6.6 kmAstronomical Observatory of Kyiv Shevchenko National UniversityBortle 5 · 13 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Urochyshche Viazove Reserve40 species · 23 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Dnieper2,285 km · 1,670 m³/sTrubizh River113 km · 364 m³/sLybid River16 km · 1.0 m³/sOmelnikTunelna Balka

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Hryshko Botanical Garden, Kiev, Ukraine - Main stairs
Albert Bergonzo · CC BY-SA 4.0
KyivBotGardenGryshko IMGP2635
Ilya · CC BY-SA 3.0
KyivBotGardenGryshko IMGP2639
Ilya · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Hryshko National Botanical Garden

Ukraine

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 765Species

Kholodny Yar

Ukraine · 186 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 61%Wild
  • 372Species

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Black Forest

Ukraine · 232 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 411Species

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Sofiyivsky Park

Ukraine · 185 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 37%Wild
  • 232Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q280791) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,187 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, Birdyas, Riveryas

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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