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Pestle Puffball

Lycoperdon excipuliforme

831Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
80Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan16
Feb26
Mar34
Apr32
May15
Jun5
Jul8
Aug24
Sep133
Oct320
Nov154
Dec30

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England76
2Gloucestershire England61
3Cambridgeshire England45
4Oxfordshire England37
5Highland Scotland36
6Bristol, City of England36
7Sefton England26
8Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland23
9Worcestershire England22
10Cornwall England21
11Argyll and Bute Scotland18
12Glasgow City Scotland15
13Kent England12
14North Yorkshire England9
15Gwynedd Wales9
581 England116 Scotland49 Wales78 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 80 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
831
Peak month
October
Counties with records
80
Scientific name
Lycoperdon excipuliforme
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
724
Most recorded in
Norfolk, Gloucestershire
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Lycoperdaceae
Genus
Lycoperdon
Name with authority
Lycoperdon excipuliforme (Scop.) Pers.
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q851354 · GBIF 5243279