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Common Yellow Russula

Russula ochroleuca

3,333Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
88Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb1
Mar0
Apr0
May3
Jun6
Jul98
Aug328
Sep934
Oct1,258
Nov489
Dec76

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England395
2Norfolk England320
3Cambridgeshire England190
4Cornwall England144
5Highland Scotland118
6Worcestershire England107
7Oxfordshire England91
8Sefton England72
9Bristol, City of England56
10Kent England50
11Cumbria England39
12Somerset England37
13Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland36
14Argyll and Bute Scotland33
15Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland33
2,611 England384 Scotland130 Wales191 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
3,333
Peak month
October
Counties with records
88
Scientific name
Russula ochroleuca
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,280
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Russulales
Family
Russulaceae
Genus
Russula
Name with authority
Russula ochroleuca Fr.
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q206438 · GBIF 2551419