- Boletus edulis group seen above Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Searching for porcini
- Spathularia flava, a common fungus in East Tibet
- Tashi is observing spore disposal from a Spathularia
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
- 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 - Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- 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.