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Pretoria National Botanical Garden

JMK · CC BY-SA 3.0

34% trees around it and 620 species recorded.

46Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km51%
  • species recorded620
  • Altitude1,359 m

The forest around

34% 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 25%Shrubland 4%Grassland 24%Cropland 0%Built-up 45%Trees 35%Shrubland 2%Grassland 14%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 47%Trees 32%Shrubland 2%Grassland 10%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 54%Trees 26%Shrubland 6%Grassland 19%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 46%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km25%
  • 1–3 km35%
  • 3–6 km32%
  • 6–10 km26%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees35%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland14%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • 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

620 species recorded.

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

Wild medlar
Wild medlarVangueria infausta17 recordsJMK · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vangueria parvifolia
Vangueria parvifoliaVangueria parvifolia14 recordsAndrostachys · Public domain
Lantana
LantanaLantana camara14 recordsروتانا · CC BY 4.0
Crabbea cirsioides
Crabbea cirsioidesCrabbea cirsioides14 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chilean jessamine
Chilean jessamineCestrum parqui13 recordsJM92 · CC BY 3.0
Clasping heliotrope
Clasping heliotropeHeliotropium amplexicaule12 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Melkbos
MelkbosXysmalobium undulatum12 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Senecio venosus
Senecio venosusSenecio venosus11 recordsJMK · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eulophia hians
Eulophia hiansEulophia hians11 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Felicia muricata
Felicia muricataFelicia muricata11 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Riocreuxia torulosa
Riocreuxia torulosaRiocreuxia torulosa8 recordsAlandmanson · CC BY 4.0
Pavetta lanceolataPavetta lanceolata10 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

46out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 51%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 620Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,359 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan31°18°115 mm
  2. Feb31°17°75 mm
  3. Mar30°15°66 mm
  4. Apr27°12°38 mm
  5. May24°8°12 mm
  6. Jun21°5°5 mm
  7. Jul21°4°2 mm
  8. Aug25°7°5 mm
  9. Sep29°11°13 mm
  10. Oct31°14°48 mm
  11. Nov31°16°79 mm
  12. Dec31°17°112 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Pretoria National Botanical Garden.

Garden in eastern Pretoria, Gauteng

Pretoria National Botanical Garden is an arboretum in South Africa, 1,359 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 51% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

620 species have been recorded around it: 416 plants, 3 fungi, 198 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wild medlar, Vangueria parvifolia and Lantana.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Broodboomtuin, a, Pretoria Nasionale Botaniese Tuin
JMK · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 08:00-18:00
  • Fountains Valley Caravan Parkcampsite · 9.4 km · 2 within 10 km
  • The Talking Featherplace to stay · 1.9 km · 162 within 10 km
  • Pretorianearest town · 8.6 km in a straight line
  • Lanseria International Airport (HLA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 41 km in a straight lineCar hire at HLA airport (Johannesburg)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.

Pretoria 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 27shelters and huts within 6 kmSala Song Thai, Shade port and 25 more
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmBird Hide and 7 more
  • 80car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmFountains Valley Caravan Park, Joos Becker
  • 162places to stay within 10 kmThe Talking Feather, Tambotie Lodge, Seidel and 159 more
  • 31restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres 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 Pretoria 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.

Peakyas23 mountains within 25 km
Strubenkop2.3 kmMeintjieskop6.3 kmSkanskop9.9 kmWeskop12 kmCornwall Hill15 kmZwartkop17 kmPyramid Koppies17 kmTierpoortrant19 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Bon Accord Reservoir1.1 km² · 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary335 species · 5.8 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.

Broodboomtuin, b, Pretoria Nasionale Botaniese Tuin
JMK · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gates at the Botanical Gardens
Jim Speirs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pretoria Botanical Gardens-001
Leo za1 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Pretoria National Botanical Garden

South Africa

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 620Species

National Botanical Garden

Botswana · 263 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 28%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 134Species

See the guide

Sunland Baobab

South Africa · 305 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 142Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7242177) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species15,062 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, Birdyas

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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