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- Asco cluster Nyade
Asco cluster Nyade ed S - Looks to me like Entoloma bloxamii, commonly known as the big blue pinkgill.
- Fritillaria bulbs put in the sun for drying.
They are a major medicinal, often used against a cold among other applications - A blue Primula
- Close up of the blue Primula sp.
- A traditional bridge, they becoming rare, concrete is just tougher!
- Stupas and prayer flags near a monastery
- Peak of Mt Chana Dorje towering in South Kham.
Named for the Buddha of Wisdom it reaches 5958 m / 19,547 ft - A meadow surrounded by pine forests above Nyade / Yading.
It was the perfect picnic spot until a rain started. - Laetiporus sulpherus var. miniatus
DSC 3015 s - Lhaga holding Laetiporus sulpherus var miniatus
- Our Sulfur shelf (Laetiporus sulpherus) cooked up.
Never did I have a sulfur shelf so tender that it melted on the tongue! - 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 group of Armillaria mushrooms above Yading
- 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 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.