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When do winter mushrooms grow in the UK and Ireland?

Updated on October 28, 20261 min read
When they are found

When they are born the mushrooms of winter in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Winter mushrooms in the UK and Ireland are mostly found from October to February, peaking in January.

Flammulina velutipes

January: 31% of observations31%GFebruary: 16% of observationsFMarch: 6.4% of observationsMApril: 1.9% of observationsAMay: 0.4% of observationsMJune: 0.0% of observationsGJuly: 0.1% of observationsLAugust: 0.4% of observationsASeptember: 2.6% of observationsSOctober: 8.2% of observationsONovember: 12% of observationsNDecember: 21% of observationsD
Month-by-month observation rate. January stands out, as the month with the most documented finds.

On 3,237 observations documented public services in the UK and Ireland from 2011 to 2025.

Because every year is different

  • The season opens with rain: after a heavy rain, with the soil still warm, it takes one or two weeks.
  • In mountain It begins earlier and ends earlier than on the plain, and the same is true for the northern slopes.
  • A'dry summer It pushes it forward, sometimes by weeks. A mild autumn lengthens it.

The calendar says the months. Which day, in your forest, this year, the rain that fell there tells you: MushScout follows it day by day and tells you when it's time.

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Data: GBIF.org — GBIF.org, observations with coordinates 2011-2025, counts by month (facet). The observations say when people have documented a find, not how many mushrooms there were.

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