- Caloboletus sp. a bitter bolete
- Amanita sp showing its greenish annulus
- Amanita greenish annulus
- Amanita sp. with greenish annulus
- Satyrium nepalense orchid
- Asterophora lycoperdoides - note how some of the turn brown. Spores are produced similar to a puffball.
- Asterophora lycoperdoides growing on a decaying Russula.
- Pseudocolus sp. stinkhorn seen near a small willow in the spruce forest above Ura
- Mushroom collection
- Mushroom collection
- Mushroom collection
- Hydnellum "peckii"
Hydnellum, maybe H. peckii, known commonly as Bleeding tooth fungus and in North America as "strawberries and cream". The orange to red drops are guttation, a liquid oozed out by some fungi, probably for defense, think chemical warfare and also to catch the eye of photographers! - Boletus reticuloceps, a choice edible porcini growing with spruce in Ura, Bumthang, Bhutan
- Boletus reticuloceps found in Ura
Boletus reticuloceps, an excellent king bolete associate with conifers distributed in the Eastern Himalayas and Eastern Tibet. It was first described from the Tibetan areas in Yunnan. Then it was named as Aureboletus reticuloceps, but in 2005 in Sydowia 57-1 Wang, Q. B. & Y. J. Yao published "Boletus reticuloceps, a new combination for Aureoboletus reticuloceps" - Two young Boletus reticuloceps seen near Ura
Local people do not appreciate these porcini and ignore them. Well, they think they are toxic. - Mushroamers with members of the National Mushroom Center of Bhutan in Ura
- Eleagnus parvifolia known in Dzonkha as Bji berry. One of our favorites.
It is related to Russian olives, but has nothing to do with olives. - Chanterelle seller seen at Pele La
- Chanterelle Seller seen in Lobesa
- Chanterelle selling lady in Lobesa