#tolypocladium

[wild-e-eep]

Elaphomyces granulatus is a truffle-like fungus that inhabits conifer plantations. It is rarely seen as it grows a few centimeters beneath the surface. It is occasionally parasitised by an earth tongue Tolypocladium capitatum that sprouts from the truffle and heads upwards, breaching the surface so it can deposit its spores on the wind.

[tom-at-the-farm]

Boletes, honey mushrooms, an Amanita, and what I originally thought was an earth tongue (bottom left) but which was actually more likely Tolypocladium ophioglossoides. Source: me, digging under the soil to find it parasitizing a small earthball. The colloquial name for this fungus is “Snaketongue Truffleclub” which sounds like a Benedict Cumberbatch joke gone off the rails

[mushrooms-switzerland]

Kopfige Kernkeule, Tolypocladium capitatum on the top of a elaphomyces granulatus 17.10.22