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Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

5,077Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
109Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb2
Mar1
Apr1
May1
Jun1
Jul29
Aug208
Sep1,272
Oct2,751
Nov664
Dec30

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland539
2Norfolk England253
3Gloucestershire England143
4Cambridgeshire England139
5Surrey England134
6Kent England131
7Sefton England118
8Worcestershire England108
9North Yorkshire England86
10Aberdeenshire Scotland85
11Suffolk England73
12Oxfordshire England71
13Cheshire East England68
14Devon England66
15Cumbria England61
3,532 England1,124 Scotland216 Wales184 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 109 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,077
Peak month
October
Counties with records
109
Scientific name
Amanita muscaria
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,203
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Amanitaceae
Genus
Amanita
Name with authority
Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q131227 · GBIF 8168319