- Calostoma cinnabarinum
Calostoma cinnabarinum, aka Pretty mouth based on its greek derived scientific name or more prosaic Stalked puffball in aspic - Calostoma cinnabarinum mouth
Calostoma cinnabarinum mouth DW Ms - Calostoma cinnabarinum with peridium
Bright red Calostoma peridium, a protective layer growing around the endoperidum with its raised peristome, the ridge of tissue around the opening for spore disposal. - Scorpio in UV light Rio Claro DW Ms-285326843
Scorpios are made easily visible at night with a UV light. Rio Claro is supposed to have 4 species of scorpios, some only found in this magic place. - Chicaque forest slope Ms
Chicaque forests and cliff - Chicaque forest slope from loadge Ms
forested slope from lodge Chicaque - Chicaque lodge Ms
Chicaque lodge - Clitocybe Chicaque Cr
Clitocybe sp. Chicaque - Historic path Chicaque Ms
An historic path, maybe pre-colonialization - climbing up through Chicaque - Jelly lichen Chicaque Hyb DW Ms
A rare Jelly lichen - Lycoperdon Chicaque DW Ms
Lycoperdon sp. Chicaque - Solanum quitonense Lulu shrub in woods Ms
Solanum quitonense - locally known as Lulu - shrub in the woods - Allium nanodes encountered on a wind swept pass in 4500m
- Cyananthus langiflorus, in the Bellflower / Campanulaceae family.
- Soroseris, a true total high altitude specialist. Wont find it below 4000m / 12,000ft.
- A tiny flowered, but great colored Sedum found in 4500m.
- Rhodiola, a rose-root.
Beautiful high altitude specialist that provides powerful high altitude medicine. Lots of research on Rhodiola in Russia. - Our 4 drivers and two guides, all Khampas,
Khampas are people from the Kham region in Eastern Tibet, these days divided and ruled under Tibet AR's Qamdo/Chamdo Prefecture, Sichuan's Ganzi/Kandze & Ngawa/Aba TAP, Yunnan's Deqing/Dechen TAP and parts of Qinghai's Yushu/Jyekundo TAP = Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. - Matsutake collector with their heavy harvest waiting until his buddy comes by motorcycle to fetch him.
- A improvised building in the matsutake camp.
Matsutake is known by Tibetans as Beshing Shamo, the oak mushroom, since it grows with oaks.