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Tree That Owns Itself
The Tree That Owns Itself, also called the Jackson Oak, is a white oak in Athens, Georgia, said by legend to own itself and eight feet of surrounding land; the deed is unverified, and the current tree is a 1946 acorn successor.
Trent Park
Trent Park (Trent Country Park) is a Grade II registered landscape park and mansion estate at Cockfosters, Enfield, north London, formerly part of Enfield Chase, home of the Sassoon family, later a WWII interrogation centre, Middlesex University campus, and a 400-acre public country park.
Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum
Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum (熱帯・亜熱帯都市緑化植物園), a free-admission botanical garden in Ocean Expo Park, Motobu, Okinawa, opened October 1990; about 6.8 ha with over 400 subtropical urban-greening species in eight sample zones.
Tropical Dream Center
Tropical Dream Center (熱帯ドリームセンター), a 6-hectare botanical garden in Ocean Expo Park, Motobu, Okinawa, opened 1986; five greenhouses with over 2,000 orchids year-round, baobabs first flowered in Japan, 36 m tower.
Tropical Flower and Plants Garden
Tropical Flower and Plants Garden (西双版纳热带花卉园) is a 4A-level tropical crop germplasm and flower park in Jinghong, Yunnan, opened in 1999 by the Yunnan Tropical Crops Research Institute, holding about 1,000 species across 25 scenic spots.
Tropical inner garden
Tropical inner garden (trooppinen sisäpuutarha): a heated glasshouse garden of tropical plants, exemplified by Botania in Joensuu, Finland, founded 1955, privately owned since 2018, Europe's only unfunded botanical garden.
Tropical Plant Germplasm Resource Collection Area
中国热带植物(种质)资源收集区, Tropical Plant Germplasm Resource Collection Area, a specialized living-collection zone founded in 2001 at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan; over 100 mu, ~1,400 accessions, 130 families, 1,000+ species, 20+ rare endangered species, part of the 万种园 project.
Tsavo East National Park
Tsavo East National Park, Kenya's largest national park (about 13,747 km², established April 1948), is a semi-arid savanna in Taita Taveta County known for red-dusted elephants, the Yatta Plateau, the Galana River, and over 500 bird species.
Tsukuba Botanical Garden
Tsukuba Botanical Garden (筑波実験植物園), a National Museum of Nature and Science research garden in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Established 1976, public 1983; 14 ha, over 7,000 species, endangered-plant conservation.
Tuileries Garden
The Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries) is a large formal garden in Paris between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, created in 1564 for Catherine de' Medici.
Turkey Run State Park
Turkey Run State Park, Indiana's second state park (1916), near Marshall, Indiana: sandstone ravines carved by glacial meltwater, Sugar Creek, ladders trails, Juliet Strauss's rescue of the old-growth forest, and the Lieber memorial.
Tuttle Creek State Park
Tuttle Creek State Park, a 1,200-acre Kansas state park near Manhattan in Pottawatomie and Riley counties, has five units on 12,500-acre Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Kansas's second largest lake, with camping, cabins, and Corps-built dam history.
Ubirr
Ubirr is an Aboriginal rock art complex at the northeastern edge of Kakadu National Park, Australia, with thousands of paintings up to 18,000 years old.
Ueno Park (上野公園)
Ueno Park (上野公園), formally Ueno Onshi Park, is a Tokyo public park designated Japan's first park in March 1873 on the former Kan'ei-ji temple grounds after Dr. Bauduin's proposal; it holds major museums, Ueno Zoo, Shinobazu Pond, and famous cherry blossoms.
Uhuru Park
Uhuru Park is a public park in central Nairobi, Kenya, opened in 1969 and known as the site of landmark protests led by Wangari Maathai.
Ulsan Grand Park
Ulsan Grand Park (울산대공원) is an ecotype city park in Nam-gu, Ulsan, South Korea, built 1997-2006 with SK funding, run by Ulsan Infrastructure Corporation, and known for its Rose Festival.
United States Botanic Garden
United States Botanic Garden (USBG), a living plant museum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.; oldest continuously operating public garden in the U.S., established by Congress in 1820, administered by the Architect of the Capitol since 1934, free admission, over one million annual visitors.
Unity Park
Unity Park (አንድነት ፓርክ) is a public park and heritage attraction in the Grand Palace compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, opened to the public on October 10, 2019.
University Botanical Garden
The University Botanical Garden (Botanisk hage), Norway's oldest botanical garden, was established in 1814 at Tøyen in Oslo and is part of the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum.
University of Oxford Botanic Garden
University of Oxford Botanic Garden, founded 1621 by Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby, is the UK's oldest botanic garden, a physic garden on the Cherwell with nearly 5,000 species, sister site Harcourt Arboretum, and Grade I registered status.
Uppsala University Botanical Garden
The Uppsala University Botanical Garden is Sweden's oldest botanical garden, founded in 1655, directed by Carl Linnaeus from 1741, and moved to its present 13-hectare site below Uppsala Castle in 1807.
Urban park systems
An urban park system is a network of parks planned and connected as one whole, a term coined by Olmsted and Vaux in 1868 for Buffalo, New York.
US municipal park systems
US municipal park systems are networks of city parks planned as connected landscapes and linked by parkways, beginning with Olmsted and Vaux's 1868 plan for Buffalo, New York.
Utopia Park
Utopia Park (פארק אוטופיה), or Utopia Orchid Park, is Israel's covered tropical rainforest at Kibbutz Bahan, opened 2006, with thousands of orchids, carnivorous plants, mazes, and a musical fountain; distinct from Utopia Park, Texas.
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada's first state park (dedicated 1934, established 1935), is a 40,000-acre park near Overton with Jurassic red Aztec Sandstone, 2,000-plus-year-old petroglyphs, and nearly one million annual visitors.
Valley of Flowers National Park (फूलों की घाटी राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Valley of Flowers National Park (फूलों की घाटी राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), also called VoFNP, is an 87.5 km² alpine-flower national park in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India; a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005 with Nanda Devi National Park.
Varirata National Park
Varirata National Park is Papua New Guinea's first national park, a 1,063-hectare tract of lowland rainforest on the Sogeri Plateau east of Port Moresby, declared in 1969.
Vasyl Stefanyk Botanical Garden
Vasyl Stefanyk Botanical Garden (Botanical Garden of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University), Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine; university scientific-research unit for plant study, preservation, and acclimatization; 54 insect species recorded in 2018.
Vatanparvarlar Bog'i
Vatanparvarlar Bog'i (Patriots' Park), a military-patriotic culture and recreation park in Qarshi, Uzbekistan, with a WWII museum, military hardware, a giant map of Uzbekistan, and about 7 hectares of grounds.
Vatia, American Samoa
Vatia is a village on Vatia Bay, north coast of Tutuila, American Samoa, a gateway village of the National Park of American Samoa; home to Old Vatia (National Register), Pola Island seabird sanctuary, and trails to Mount 'Alava.