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Brown Cubical Rot of Birch

Fomitopsis betulina

6,697Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
113Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan463
Feb419
Mar396
Apr418
May338
Jun167
Jul231
Aug426
Sep1,044
Oct1,496
Nov724
Dec403

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England567
2Cambridgeshire England386
3Highland Scotland367
4Gloucestershire England302
5Argyll and Bute Scotland228
6Surrey England157
7Worcestershire England143
8Essex England132
9Aberdeenshire Scotland124
10Sefton England117
11Kent England108
12Oxfordshire England93
13Cumbria England81
14Suffolk England68
15Cheshire East England68
4,979 England1,242 Scotland279 Wales177 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 113 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,697
Peak month
October
Counties with records
113
Scientific name
Fomitopsis betulina
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,458
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Polyporales
Family
Fomitopsidaceae
Genus
Fomitopsis
Name with authority
Fomitopsis betulina (Bull.) B.K.Cui, M.L.Han & Y.C.Dai
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q96894257 · GBIF 9819973