- 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 - Drolma king bolete searching.
- A solar collector to heat water.
Tibet has lots of sunshine between October and Mai. Winters a bone dry and sunny! - Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
- 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.
- Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
- 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.
- Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
- Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
We were served tsampa, butter tea and Tibetan bread, yummy! - Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)
- Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea
- Tashi is observing spore disposal from a Spathularia
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka