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Elder Whitewash

Lyomyces sambuci

1,535Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
86Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan241
Feb173
Mar148
Apr126
May53
Jun23
Jul33
Aug58
Sep108
Oct224
Nov190
Dec145

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England171
2Norfolk England134
3Gloucestershire England72
4Sefton England69
5Cornwall England55
6Oxfordshire England39
7North Yorkshire England39
8Leeds England33
9Wirral England25
10Denbighshire Wales19
11Halton England17
12East Dunbartonshire Scotland17
13Bristol, City of England15
14North Lanarkshire Scotland14
15Highland Scotland13
1,159 England146 Scotland146 Wales34 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 86 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,535
Peak month
January
Counties with records
86
Scientific name
Lyomyces sambuci
Group
Fungi
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Corticiales
Family
Corticiaceae
Genus
Lyomyces
Name with authority
Lyomyces sambuci (Pers.) P.Karst.
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q105058288 · GBIF 5237531