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Brown Birch Bolete

Leccinum scabrum

1,899Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May3
Jun19
Jul82
Aug272
Sep644
Oct695
Nov106
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland239
2Norfolk England100
3Gloucestershire England96
4Worcestershire England61
5Oxfordshire England57
6Cambridgeshire England55
7Kent England45
8Cumbria England43
9Argyll and Bute Scotland39
10Sefton England37
11Perth and Kinross Scotland36
12Aberdeenshire Scotland34
13Liverpool England31
14Surrey England26
15North Yorkshire England26
1,145 England490 Scotland71 Wales107 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,899
Peak month
October
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Leccinum scabrum
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,602
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Boletales
Family
Boletaceae
Genus
Leccinum
Name with authority
Leccinum scabrum (Bull.) Gray
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9141390