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Taipei Botanical Garden

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17% trees around it and 383 species recorded.

36Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km17%
  • wild within 10 km43%
  • species recorded383

The forest around

17% 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 15%Grassland 0%Built-up 84%Trees 17%Grassland 3%Water 14%Cropland 0%Built-up 66%Trees 18%Grassland 2%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 75%Trees 46%Mangroves 0%Grassland 2%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 47%17%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km15%
  • 1–3 km17%
  • 3–6 km18%
  • 6–10 km46%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees17%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water14%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up66%

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

383 species recorded.

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

Whisk fern
Whisk fernPsilotum nudum660 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese banyan
Chinese banyanFicus microcarpa33 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ficus subpisocarpa
Ficus subpisocarpaFicus subpisocarpa32 recordsAnthony Bain · CC BY-SA 3.0
Twoleaf nightshade
Twoleaf nightshadeSolanum diphyllum28 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese Spiranthes
Chinese SpiranthesSpiranthes sinensis24 recordsSphl · CC BY-SA 3.0
Paper mulberry
Paper mulberryBroussonetia papyrifera19 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Javanese bishopwood
Javanese bishopwoodBischofia javanica17 recordsGeographer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese Brake
Chinese BrakePteris vittata16 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pink woodsorrel
Pink woodsorrelOxalis debilis15 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Romerillo
RomerilloBidens alba14 recordsBob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth! · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rougeplant
RougeplantRivina humilis13 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rockweed
RockweedPilea microphylla13 recordsForest & Kim Starr · 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.

36out of 100

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

  • 17%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 43%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 383Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from December to March.

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

  1. Jan17°12°95 mm
  2. Feb18°12°88 mm
  3. Mar20°14°126 mm
  4. Apr24°18°122 mm
  5. May27°21°227 mm
  6. Jun29°24°270 mm
  7. Jul30°25°169 mm
  8. Aug30°25°263 mm
  9. Sep28°24°243 mm
  10. Oct25°20°108 mm
  11. Nov22°18°107 mm
  12. Dec18°14°96 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Taipei Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Taiwan.

Seen from space, 17% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 43% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

383 species have been recorded around it: 129 plants, 11 fungi, 240 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Whisk fern, Chinese banyan and Ficus subpisocarpa.

The best time to walk is from December to March.

Taipei Botanical Garden Greenhouse
Meiguoren · CC0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • 第一汽車露營區campsite · 2.3 km · 16 within 10 km
  • 新驛旅店 西門捷運店place to stay · 1.1 km · 659 within 10 km
  • Taipeinearest town · 2.8 km in a straight line
  • Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire in TaipeiDiscover 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.

Taipei 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

  • 12marked trails within 5 km仙跡岩親山步道, 福州山步道, 千里步道台北基隆支線 and 9 more
  • 24named and notable trees within 6 km仙樟樹, 榕園, 苦楝 and 21 more
  • 21picnic sites within 4 km
  • 469shelters and huts within 6 km長青亭, 國旗亭, 涼亭 and 466 more
  • 60viewpoints within 5 km林蔭大道, 荷風閣, 賞鳥平台 and 57 more
  • 24visitor centres within 6 km龍山寺旅遊服務中心, 西門旅遊服務中心, 台大訪客中心 and 21 more
  • 540car parks within 3 km
  • 16campsites within 10 km第一汽車露營區, 華中露營場, 第二汽車露營區 and 13 more
  • 659places to stay within 10 km新驛旅店 西門捷運店, 古山園旅社, 西門町意舍飯店 and 656 more
  • 4,733restaurants 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 Taipei 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.

Peakyas304 mountains within 25 km
Qixingshan1,120 m · 16 kmQixing East Peak1,108 m · 16 kmTatun Volcano Group16 kmDatun Mountain1,093 m · 16 kmXiaoguanyin Mountain1,038 m · 18 kmZhuzi Mountain1,103 m · volcano · 21 kmZhulu Shan1,350 m · 23 kmDabaoke Shan1,107 m · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
Taiwan Island35,883 km²
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Shingon Buddhism Grotto Temple of Beitou11 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Shengren Waterfall13 kmDatun Waterfall14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Xindian River82 kmJingmei RiverZhinan River

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

2018 Urbain Jean Faurie's statue in Taipei Botanical Garden
Taiwankengo · CC BY-SA 4.0
2019 Costus fissiligulatus at Taipei Botanical Garden B
Taiwankengo · CC BY-SA 4.0
台北植物園 Taipei Botanical Garden - panoramio (1)
lienyuan lee · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Taipei Botanical Garden

Taiwan

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 17%Trees
  • 43%Wild
  • 383Species

Qilan National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 50 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 257Species

See the guide

Wuling National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 75 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 618Species

See the guide

Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 106 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 391Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10914190) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species148,715 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, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, 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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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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