- Suillus cavipes, a larch symbiont apparently distributed all over the Northern Hemisphere wherever larch trees (Larix sp.) occur.
It is fun meeting old friends in exotic locations., - A cool lichen, may be a Lethariella, but that is just a guess...
- Looks to me like Entoloma bloxamii, commonly known as the big blue pinkgill.
- Our Sulfur shelf (Laetiporus sulpherus) cooked up.
Never did I have a sulfur shelf so tender that it melted on the tongue! - Coprinopsis atramentaria, the ink cap or Tipplers bane, which is also distributed in Europe and North America
- Wild growing hemp. Tibetans love the seeds of hemp.
- Androsace, a member of the Primulaceae
- A creek running through the meadow in Yading
- A spotted laughing thrush, most of the time they are very shy, but not in this sanctuary
- Drolma and Drolma, Tibetan local guides.
- At first Drolma was a bit closed and standish apart.
But she really got into mushrooms and kept bringing specimens. - Nyade as the local Tibetans used to know the place, Yading in Chinese.
Nearly every house is a tourist hotel. What location. - Soroseris, a true total high altitude specialist. Wont find it below 4000m / 12,000ft.
- A tiny flowered, but great colored Sedum found in 4500m.
- Rhodiola, a rose-root.
Beautiful high altitude specialist that provides powerful high altitude medicine. Lots of research on Rhodiola in Russia. - Our 4 drivers and two guides, all Khampas,
Khampas are people from the Kham region in Eastern Tibet, these days divided and ruled under Tibet AR's Qamdo/Chamdo Prefecture, Sichuan's Ganzi/Kandze & Ngawa/Aba TAP, Yunnan's Deqing/Dechen TAP and parts of Qinghai's Yushu/Jyekundo TAP = Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. - Matsutake collector with their heavy harvest waiting until his buddy comes by motorcycle to fetch him.
- A improvised building in the matsutake camp.
Matsutake is known by Tibetans as Beshing Shamo, the oak mushroom, since it grows with oaks. - Great Hot springs near Shangri La
- A basket full of King boletes (Boletus edulis sensu lato)