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Blackish Puffball

Lycoperdon nigrescens

1,080Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb4
Mar6
Apr2
May0
Jun4
Jul12
Aug53
Sep213
Oct494
Nov214
Dec20

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Powys Wales112
2Gloucestershire England78
3Norfolk England73
4Highland Scotland73
5Gwynedd Wales41
6Cambridgeshire England40
7Worcestershire England40
8Bristol, City of England32
9Aberdeenshire Scotland23
10Somerset England19
11Oxfordshire England18
12Cornwall England17
13Argyll and Bute Scotland16
14Kent England14
15Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland14
634 England168 Scotland198 Wales74 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,080
Peak month
October
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Lycoperdon nigrescens
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,032
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Lycoperdaceae
Genus
Lycoperdon
Name with authority
Lycoperdon nigrescens Pers.
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1614935 · GBIF 5243210