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Chicken of The Woods

Laetiporus sulphureus

2,434Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
103Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan38
Feb34
Mar29
Apr84
May404
Jun304
Jul176
Aug432
Sep481
Oct268
Nov92
Dec30

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England190
2Cambridgeshire England118
3Bristol, City of England85
4Gloucestershire England84
5Surrey England70
6Oxfordshire England52
7Worcestershire England49
8Cornwall England48
9Cheshire East England44
10Kent England43
11Highland Scotland42
12Essex England41
13Sefton England40
14Somerset England30
15Sheffield England24
2,106 England187 Scotland90 Wales44 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 103 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,434
Peak month
September
Counties with records
103
Scientific name
Laetiporus sulphureus
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,207
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Polyporales
Family
Laetiporaceae
Genus
Laetiporus
Name with authority
Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q772098 · GBIF 9072021