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Butter Cap

Rhodocollybia butyracea

2,853Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
88Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan69
Feb10
Mar5
Apr1
May0
Jun7
Jul19
Aug36
Sep231
Oct1,313
Nov857
Dec185

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England328
2Gloucestershire England274
3Cambridgeshire England191
4Oxfordshire England131
5Worcestershire England99
6Bristol, City of England87
7Highland Scotland77
8Cornwall England71
9Sefton England44
10Powys Wales43
11Kent England42
12Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland37
13Somerset England35
14Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland26
15Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland24
2,304 England206 Scotland168 Wales161 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 88 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,853
Peak month
October
Counties with records
88
Scientific name
Rhodocollybia butyracea
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,781
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Omphalotaceae
Genus
Rhodocollybia
Name with authority
Rhodocollybia butyracea (Bull.) Lennox
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9217873