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Tree of Hippocrates

Steven Fruitsmaak · CC BY-SA 3.0

14% trees around it and 110 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded110

The forest around

14% 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 9%Grassland 7%Water 42%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 40%Trees 14%Shrubland 1%Grassland 21%Water 42%Bare ground 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 11%Trees 9%Shrubland 3%Grassland 29%Water 54%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 2%Trees 7%Shrubland 1%Grassland 10%Water 77%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km9%
  • 6–10 km7%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland21%
  • Water42%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland9%
  • Built-up11%

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

110 species recorded.

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

Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander19 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Pomegranate
PomegranatePunica granatum8 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese Hibiscus
Chinese HibiscusHibiscus × rosa-sinensis6 recordsAndy / Andrew Fogg from near Cambridge, UK · CC BY 2.0
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis6 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0
Squirting Cucumber
Squirting CucumberEcballium elaterium5 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Dittrichia viscosa
Dittrichia viscosaDittrichia viscosa5 recordsJavier martin · Public domain
Black pouiVU
Black pouiJacaranda mimosifolia5 recordsKahuroa · Public domain
Fig
FigFicus carica4 recordsSilverije · CC BY-SA 4.0
Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea4 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinaberry
ChinaberryMelia azedarach4 recordsAnna Anichkova · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brachychiton populneus
Brachychiton populneusBrachychiton populneus4 recordsPhilmarin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silktree
SilktreeAlbizia julibrissin3 recordsCmapm · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

44out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 110Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan14°10°152 mm
  2. Feb15°11°109 mm
  3. Mar17°12°63 mm
  4. Apr20°14°43 mm
  5. May24°18°24 mm
  6. Jun28°21°6 mm
  7. Jul32°24°2 mm
  8. Aug32°24°2 mm
  9. Sep28°22°20 mm
  10. Oct24°18°49 mm
  11. Nov20°15°95 mm
  12. Dec16°12°150 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tree of Hippocrates.

Remarkable tree

Tree of Hippocrates is a notable tree in Greece.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

110 species have been recorded around it: 25 plants, 1 fungi, 84 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Oleander, Pomegranate and Chinese Hibiscus.

The best time to walk is in April.

Plane tree of Hippocrates
Steven Fruitsmaak · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Tree of Hippocrates 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
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmView from Kos Town to Marmari, view to south coast and 4 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmOffice of Tourism
  • 31car parks within 3 km
  • 235places to stay within 10 kmSunrise Apartments, Gaia Garden Hotel, Captain Pavlos Hotel and 232 more
  • 162restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Tree of Hippocrates.

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.

Peakyas25 mountains within 25 km
Dikeos846 m · 8.5 kmAkyarlar172 m · volcano · 9.8 kmMount Dikaios10 kmProfitis Ilias10 kmPalaio Pyli300 m · 11 kmKotronia18 kmStavri21 kmVoreino23 km
Islandyasthe island
Kos290 km²
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Agkáli Emprós Thérma6.0 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Alikes Salt Lake0.7 km² · 11 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Kos: Limni Psalidi - Alyki11 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.

Tree of Hippocrates at USUHS
Thesofine · CC BY 4.0
Tree of Hippocrates NIH
National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Public domain
Kos - Platane des Hippokrates 02
Michael Schmalenstroer · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Tree of Hippocrates

Greece

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 110Species

Olive tree of Vouves

Greece · 351 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 18Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1036717) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species877 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, Coastya, 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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