- Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
- Tashi is observing spore disposal from a Spathularia
- Spathularia flava, a common fungus in East Tibet
- Searching for porcini
- Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
- Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- Neottia acuminata orchis,
a myco-heterotroph orchid found in the matsutake forest in Nyarong. Reminds me of Allotropa virgata aka Candy stick orchid feeding of American Matsutake. - Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Laccaria amethystea, a Boletus / Xerocomus sp. and another Laccaria
- Kham July 12 335 s
Orgyen Rinchen with Matsutake in Nyachuka - Kham / Yajiang - Ganzi, Sichuan - Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
We were served tsampa, butter tea and Tibetan bread, yummy! - Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea
- Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
- Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)
- Drolma king bolete searching.
- Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
- Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.