- Drolma king bolete searching.
- 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 - Kham July 12 335 s
Orgyen Rinchen with Matsutake in Nyachuka - Kham / Yajiang - Ganzi, Sichuan - Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- Laccaria amethystea, a Boletus / Xerocomus sp. and another Laccaria
- Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
- Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
- 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.
- Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
- A solar collector to heat water.
Tibet has lots of sunshine between October and Mai. Winters a bone dry and sunny! - Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
We were served tsampa, butter tea and Tibetan bread, yummy! - Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
- A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
- Veggies and Mushrooms for sale in Nyachuka.
- A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.
- Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi.
I only know one spot in East Tibet with this beautiful Lily - Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka
- Ajuga lupulina, the Pagoda Bugleweed!
- An orchid found in 4200m