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Scaly Earthball

Scleroderma verrucosum

1,046Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
63Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan13
Feb2
Mar2
Apr2
May0
Jun3
Jul36
Aug167
Sep321
Oct318
Nov101
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England115
2Gloucestershire England99
3Cambridgeshire England87
4Worcestershire England60
5Cornwall England59
6Oxfordshire England32
7Sefton England28
8Bristol, City of England24
9Kent England19
10Somerset England11
11Halton England11
12Essex England10
13Wirral England10
14Surrey England8
15Pembrokeshire Wales8
928 England33 Scotland31 Wales29 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 63 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,046
Peak month
September
Counties with records
63
Scientific name
Scleroderma verrucosum
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,000
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Boletales
Family
Sclerodermataceae
Genus
Scleroderma
Name with authority
Scleroderma verrucosum (Bull.) Pers.
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q902264 · GBIF 5239959