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Turkeytail

Trametes versicolor

9,862Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
117Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan923
Feb868
Mar840
Apr878
May616
Jun360
Jul374
Aug536
Sep1,016
Oct1,684
Nov1,008
Dec733

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England693
2Gloucestershire England493
3Cambridgeshire England433
4Bristol, City of England217
5Oxfordshire England212
6Sefton England179
7Argyll and Bute Scotland173
8Cornwall England169
9Kent England121
10Highland Scotland119
11Cumbria England93
12Surrey England84
13Essex England73
14Somerset England70
15North Yorkshire England67
6,096 England858 Scotland398 Wales282 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 117 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,862
Peak month
October
Counties with records
117
Scientific name
Trametes versicolor
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,839
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Polyporales
Family
Polyporaceae
Genus
Trametes
Name with authority
Trametes versicolor (L.) Lloyd
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q753833 · GBIF 2548311