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- Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi.
I only know one spot in East Tibet with this beautiful Lily - Veggies and Mushrooms for sale in Nyachuka.
- A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.
- A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
- Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
- 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! - 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
- Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)
- 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 - Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
- Drolma king bolete searching.
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Tashi is observing spore disposal from a Spathularia
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods