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False Chanterelle

Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca

2,094Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May0
Jun3
Jul33
Aug199
Sep472
Oct903
Nov342
Dec41

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland231
2Gloucestershire England171
3Norfolk England164
4Cambridgeshire England143
5Worcestershire England76
6Oxfordshire England71
7Aberdeenshire Scotland66
8Powys Wales51
9Suffolk England30
10Somerset England30
11Sefton England28
12Bristol, City of England26
13Cornwall England25
14Argyll and Bute Scotland24
15Surrey England23
1,396 England477 Scotland95 Wales81 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,094
Peak month
October
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,794
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Boletales
Family
Hygrophoropsidaceae
Genus
Hygrophoropsis
Name with authority
Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca (Wulfen) Maire
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1265541 · GBIF 2525710