- 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.
- Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
We were served tsampa, butter tea and Tibetan bread, yummy! - A solar collector to heat water.
Tibet has lots of sunshine between October and Mai. Winters a bone dry and sunny! - 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)
- Finding the amazing Laccaria amethystea is always a treat! Luckily it is not rare.
- Laccaria amethystea, a Boletus / Xerocomus sp. and another Laccaria
- Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- 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.
- Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)
- Boletus edulis group seen above Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.
- A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
- Neottia acuminata orchis,
a myco-heterotroph orchid found in the matsutake forest in Nyarong. Reminds me of Allotropa virgata aka Candy stick orchid feeding of American Matsutake. - Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods