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Blackening Waxcap

Hygrocybe conica

4,612Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan15
Feb7
Mar17
Apr14
May15
Jun45
Jul158
Aug367
Sep882
Oct2,083
Nov879
Dec26

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland534
2Gwynedd Wales251
3Powys Wales172
4Pembrokeshire Wales145
5Norfolk England143
6Bristol, City of England98
7Cambridgeshire England94
8Worcestershire England94
9Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland85
10Argyll and Bute Scotland80
11Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland80
12Cornwall England78
13Cumbria England74
14Aberdeenshire Scotland64
15Gloucestershire England61
2,146 England988 Scotland899 Wales493 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,612
Peak month
October
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Hygrocybe conica
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,237
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Hygrophoraceae
Genus
Hygrocybe
Name with authority
Hygrocybe conica (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1434668 · GBIF 2538524