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Winecork Brittlegill

Russula adusta

1,859Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
80Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan13
Feb5
Mar2
Apr0
May5
Jun10
Jul38
Aug264
Sep584
Oct639
Nov187
Dec34

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland141
2Norfolk England137
3Gloucestershire England121
4Cornwall England83
5Worcestershire England58
6Oxfordshire England57
7Kent England51
8Cambridgeshire England50
9Argyll and Bute Scotland40
10Aberdeenshire Scotland38
11Cumbria England37
12Sefton England28
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland26
14Bristol, City of England24
15Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland24
1,254 England362 Scotland91 Wales128 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
1,859
Peak month
October
Counties with records
80
Scientific name
Russula adusta
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
125
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Russulales
Family
Russulaceae
Genus
Russula
Name with authority
Russula adusta (Pers.) Fr.
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9223923