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- Alexanders Rhubarb flowers are protected from wind, weather and radiation, all intense in high altitude.
- Soroseris, a true total high altitude specialist. Wont find it below 4000m / 12,000ft.
- Several species of Lactarius related to Lactarius deliciosus, like L. hatsudake and L. sanguifluus
- Mountain scenery on the Deqen / Garze Prefectures border, Chinese know as Xiao Shu Shan
- Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.
- Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods
- Rhodiola, a rose-root.
- An orchid, maybe an Orchis
- A tiny flowered, but great colored Sedum found in 4500m.
- A solar collector to heat water.
- A improvised building in the matsutake camp.
- Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka
- Drolma king bolete searching.
- Fritillaria bulbs put in the sun for drying.
- A mobile matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake) dealer who meets his clients along the hiighway.
- The local community helps erecting the statue of Buddha Shakyamuni.
- Be Sha sales woman. Be sha is the Tibetan name for pine mushrooms, but means oak mushroom.
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa just north of Sumdo (4200m / 14,000ft).
- A group of Armillaria mushrooms above Yading
- Tibetan farmers cutting their barley with scythes