Cover page Tepu village with Tapanahoni River from the air

Pleurotus djamor, a great edible Oyster mushroom. Note the different color in the fruiting bodies of the same mycelium

Pleurotus djamor var roseus - Tropical oyster, a great edible mushroom

Poison dart frog - Dendrobates tinctorius seen in Tepu

Esero, a local mushroom expert and his parrot inspect a Stereum with parasitizing Tremella in Tepu

Cantharellus guyanensis field around the Teramu (Caesalipinaceae) tree

Cantharellus guyanensis Display

Cantharellus guyanensis in a transport basket made on the spot

Cantharellus Rayan Kiran Daniel Romano

Daniel showing mushroom pictures in 8th grade, the highest grade in Tepu school

Passion fruit (Passiflora sp.) flower with ant

Cookeina with Basha Jan in Tepu

Cookeina sulcipes? The taxonomy of Cookeina is not clear yet.

Cookeina speciosa fried - great crunchy consistency and good taste like fungal baconW Ms

A Trogia, quite similar to Trogia venenata from Yunnan that is infamous having killed 300 people.

Lentinus crinitus seen from the side. A rather firm if not tough, but edible mushroom. Turning it into a powder as mushroom spice or cooking it long too soften helps.

Lentinus crinitus (var. berteroi?), the Fringed Sawgill is an edible mushroom in the polypore family.

A young Tremella fuciformis known in China as Silver or Snow fungus and appreciated as food stuff and medicine. It usually parasitizes on (Annulo-)Hypoxylon fungus.

Auricularia delicata, a common edible wood ear. Strangely we found only these babies. Apparently it had not rained sufficient in Tepu yet.

A very young Auricularia polytricha, the rains were not sufficient for a good crop of wood ears