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Root Rot

Heterobasidion annosum

1,363Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
80Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan94
Feb66
Mar72
Apr66
May47
Jun11
Jul36
Aug96
Sep213
Oct355
Nov178
Dec75

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England119
2Norfolk England98
3Cambridgeshire England85
4Highland Scotland67
5Sefton England49
6Bristol, City of England46
7Worcestershire England44
8Oxfordshire England27
9Somerset England22
10North Yorkshire England21
11Argyll and Bute Scotland20
12Aberdeenshire Scotland20
13Perth and Kinross Scotland20
14Cumbria England18
15Cornwall England17
984 England229 Scotland54 Wales48 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
1,363
Peak month
October
Counties with records
80
Scientific name
Heterobasidion annosum
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,285
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Russulales
Family
Bondarzewiaceae
Genus
Heterobasidion
Name with authority
Heterobasidion annosum (Fr.) Bref.
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1411830 · GBIF 2551968