The Drumstick Truffleclub
There’s a fungus which is barely visible on the forest floor.
![The Drumstick Truffleclub - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bovey-Heath-The-Hall-of-Einar-8-725x408.jpg)
It’s Tolypocladium capitatum, the Drumstick Truffleclub.
![The Drumstick Truffleclub - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bovey-Heath-The-Hall-of-Einar-10-725x408.jpg)
It’s a parasitic fungus which grows on a fungus. I love parasitic fungi. There’s the Scarlet Caterpillar Club, Cordyceps militaris, which I’ve found before, which grows on caterpillars and pupae. There’s also the parasitic Bolete, Pseudoboletus parasiticus, which is always a thrill to find:
This Drumstick Truffleclub grows on truffles.
![The Drumstick Truffleclub - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bovey-Heath-The-Hall-of-Einar-5-725x408.jpg)
I’m going to come back with a small implement to dig it up and see the whole thing.
![The Drumstick Truffleclub - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bovey-Heath-The-Hall-of-Einar-11-725x408.jpg)
In the meantime I’m just going to lie here on the wet ground admiring it.
![The Drumstick Truffleclub - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bovey-Heath-The-Hall-of-Einar-2995-725x408.jpg)
Because that’s the sensible thing to do.