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Red cracking bolete

Xerocomellus chrysenteron

1,617Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
80Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb4
Mar0
Apr6
May6
Jun20
Jul130
Aug371
Sep445
Oct463
Nov110
Dec6

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England199
2Oxfordshire England92
3Bristol, City of England65
4Cornwall England54
5Norfolk England53
6Worcestershire England46
7Sefton England44
8Cambridgeshire England41
9Highland Scotland34
10Ards and North Down Northern Ireland28
11Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland27
12Mid Ulster Northern Ireland23
13Aberdeenshire Scotland18
14Perth and Kinross Scotland18
15Belfast Northern Ireland17
1,118 England185 Scotland47 Wales158 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
1,617
Peak month
October
Counties with records
80
Scientific name
Xerocomellus chrysenteron
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,399
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Boletales
Family
Boletaceae
Genus
Xerocomellus
Name with authority
Xerocomellus chrysenteron (Bull.) Šutara
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q254161 · GBIF 2519413