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

Mushroom tasting with Tepu kids and Daniel cooking ChanterellesDW Ms

A beetle? camouflaged with lichen

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

Pelelu Tepu village in Sipaliwini District with Tapanahoni River

Chantarellus Daniel Romano Basja Jan Theesinase DW Ms

Mushroom tasting samples: Chanterelles, Cookeina and Oysters on paper bag

Rayan Romano Kiran Daniel showing off the Chanties in Tepu

An overmature Macrolepiota

Ophiocordyceps sphecocephala growing out of a wasp

8th grade of Tepu School that came for the mushroom tasting

Ophiocordyceps sphecocephala laying on Rigidoporus conk

Ophiocordyceps sphaecocephala

Cantharellus Rayan Kiran Daniel Romano

Scleroderma camassuense with scale. What a cool ectomycorrhizal fungus!

Scleroderma camassuense, an ecto-mycorrhizal member of the Boletales

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

Mycelium climbing on tree base

Colorful earth tongues

Yellow-green Earth tongues that stain blue!