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Limbe Botanical Gardens

Nobossé · CC BY-SA 4.0

37% trees around it and 484 species recorded.

64Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km37%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded484

The forest around

37% 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 27%Grassland 3%Water 32%Built-up 38%Trees 38%Mangroves 0%Grassland 2%Water 29%Built-up 31%Trees 65%Mangroves 1%Grassland 2%Water 26%Built-up 7%Trees 59%Grassland 2%Water 37%Built-up 2%37%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km27%
  • 1–3 km38%
  • 3–6 km65%
  • 6–10 km59%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees38%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water29%
  • Built-up31%

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

484 species recorded.

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

Mascarenhasia arborescens
Mascarenhasia arborescensMascarenhasia arborescens22 recordsTatters ❀ from Brisbane, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Carapa procera
Carapa proceraCarapa procera21 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
African yam bean
African yam beanSphenostylis stenocarpa17 recordsTracey Slotta @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
White Mangrove
White MangroveLaguncularia racemosa16 recordsUlf Mehlig · CC BY-SA 2.5
Oysternut
OysternutTelfairia occidentalis12 recordsJoseph Dalton Hooker · Public domain
Sesamum
SesamumSesamum radiatum12 recordsVijayanrajapuram · CC BY-SA 4.0
Achiote
AchioteBixa orellana11 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coinvine
CoinvineDalbergia ecastaphyllum11 recordsPancrat · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ghanja kola
Ghanja kolaCola nitida11 recordsMichael Hermann · CC BY-SA 3.0
African basil
African basilOcimum gratissimum10 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Sterculia
SterculiaSterculia tragacantha10 recordsDenis Barthel · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jackfruit tree
Jackfruit treeArtocarpus heterophyllus9 recordsChirocca77 · 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.

64out of 100

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

  • 37%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 484Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

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

  1. Jan29°24°32 mm
  2. Feb29°25°76 mm
  3. Mar29°25°149 mm
  4. Apr28°25°194 mm
  5. May28°25°208 mm
  6. Jun27°24°330 mm
  7. Jul26°23°366 mm
  8. Aug26°23°393 mm
  9. Sep26°23°381 mm
  10. Oct27°24°249 mm
  11. Nov28°24°147 mm
  12. Dec28°24°28 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Limbe Botanical Gardens.

Botanical garden in Cameroon

Limbe Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Cameroon.

Seen from space, 37% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

484 species have been recorded around it: 317 plants, 0 fungi, 162 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Mascarenhasia arborescens, Carapa procera and African yam bean.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

A River through the limbe Botanical Garden 01
Nobossé · CC BY-SA 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.

Limbe 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

  • 7viewpoints within 5 kmbotanic garden entrance, Ngosso Family Residence, Tali Residence and 4 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmWildlife Conservation Society, sokolo internet cafe
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmDFT MAKUNDA, Camp 7, Last Bush
  • 63places to stay within 10 kmAtlantic Beach Hotel, Complexe Maxim's, FINI HOTEL and 60 more
  • 35restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts 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 Limbe 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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Little Koppen Hill6.3 kmBatoki Rock9.7 kmLittle Mount Cameroon1,713 m · volcano · 12 kmBottle Peak3,942 m · 23 kmFako3,976 m · 23 kmMount Cameroon4,095 m · volcano · 23 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 Limbé
Hiobson · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lily Lilium botanic garden Limbe Cameroon
Atabong Armstrong · CC BY-SA 4.0
African palms trees - Limbe Botanic Garden
BabyBen98 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Limbe Botanical Gardens

Cameroon

  • 64Forestyas Score
  • 37%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 484Species

Cameroonian Highlands forests

Nigeria · 297 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

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Upper Orashi Forest Reserve

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  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3162399) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,362 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

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

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