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Pear-shaped puffball, Stump puffball

Apioperdon pyriforme

2,490Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan144
Feb87
Mar83
Apr66
May38
Jun9
Jul19
Aug83
Sep388
Oct865
Nov466
Dec137

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England177
2Gloucestershire England177
3Bristol, City of England128
4Oxfordshire England125
5Worcestershire England86
6Cambridgeshire England76
7Sefton England58
8Highland Scotland44
9Cornwall England42
10Kent England33
11Cumbria England29
12Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland24
13Perth and Kinross Scotland23
14Essex England22
15Glasgow City Scotland21
1,914 England287 Scotland131 Wales149 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,490
Peak month
October
Counties with records
94
Scientific name
Apioperdon pyriforme
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,030
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Lycoperdaceae
Genus
Apioperdon
Name with authority
Apioperdon pyriforme (Schaeff.) Vizzini
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 10852503