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Witches' Butter

Exidia glandulosa

1,788Records since 2000
JanuaryPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan349
Feb334
Mar228
Apr166
May87
Jun33
Jul27
Aug35
Sep55
Oct118
Nov121
Dec183

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England241
2Cambridgeshire England206
3Gloucestershire England119
4Argyll and Bute Scotland45
5Highland Scotland38
6Worcestershire England38
7Bristol, City of England35
8Oxfordshire England33
9Essex England32
10Sefton England31
11Kent England25
12Suffolk England20
13Cornwall England18
14North Yorkshire England17
15Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland17
1,436 England176 Scotland89 Wales71 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,788
Peak month
January
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Exidia glandulosa
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,463
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Auriculariales
Family
Auriculariaceae
Genus
Exidia
Name with authority
Exidia glandulosa (Bull.) Fr.
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q39119 · GBIF 2553607