- Stellera chamaejasme, with yellow and white flowers
- Stellera chaemajasme, a perennial Daphne relative.
- Spathularia flava, a common fungus in East Tibet
- Soroseris, a true total high altitude specialist. Wont find it below 4000m / 12,000ft.
- Some bolete close to Neoboletus luridiformis. It can be found on the bigger mushroom markets, but traditionally not often eaten by Tibetan communities.
- Shop keepers with dried Saussurea medusa et al., in Chinglish known as snow lotus
- Several species of Lactarius related to Lactarius deliciosus, like L. hatsudake and L. sanguifluus
- Seasonal matsutake Camp on the Chaktreng-Shangrila border
- Searching for porcini
- Ringha Gompa with prayer flags. We met lots of animals and mushrooms there.
- Rhodiola, a rose-root.
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, an high altitude specialist
- Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, also an important medicinal in Tibetan Medicine and TCM
- Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) checking out flower at teh Panda center
- Pterocephalus hookeri, great geometry!
- Prayer mills line the Korwa circuit, the walk around the monastery.
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa, a Kagyupa monastery founded in 1169 by the First Karmapa Dusum Chenpa
- Pombu or Dekyi Gompa just north of Sumdo (4200m / 14,000ft).
- Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.