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Common Earthball

Scleroderma citrinum

3,101Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan91
Feb31
Mar6
Apr2
May2
Jun7
Jul99
Aug465
Sep804
Oct1,054
Nov356
Dec89

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England382
2Gloucestershire England335
3Cambridgeshire England211
4Cornwall England189
5Worcestershire England76
6Surrey England65
7Sefton England60
8Kent England55
9Cumbria England48
10Oxfordshire England40
11Argyll and Bute Scotland40
12Suffolk England39
13Somerset England37
14Cheshire East England36
15Highland Scotland34
2,699 England185 Scotland127 Wales71 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
3,101
Peak month
October
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Scleroderma citrinum
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,563
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Boletales
Family
Sclerodermataceae
Genus
Scleroderma
Name with authority
Scleroderma citrinum Pers.
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1210127 · GBIF 5239982