- A farm house in Nyachuka. These houses started to get painted in the late 1990 when Matsutake money enabled farmers to do so. Before that house were unpainted.
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
- A solar collector to heat water.
Tibet has lots of sunshine between October and Mai. Winters a bone dry and sunny! - A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.
It is traded and finds its way into export to Italy. You might have enjoyed it when buying dried porcini from Italy - Boletus edulis group seen above Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
- Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
- Drolma king bolete searching.
- Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)
- Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
- Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea
- Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
We were served tsampa, butter tea and Tibetan bread, yummy! - Kham July 12 335 s
Orgyen Rinchen with Matsutake in Nyachuka - Kham / Yajiang - Ganzi, Sichuan - Laccaria amethystea, a Boletus / Xerocomus sp. and another Laccaria
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
- 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.