- Yak cows being molken. Yak milk has 5 to 7% fat, very rich!
- Watergrass cutting with Cormorants
Watergrass cutting near Kochi under the watch of cormorants - The city currently known as Shangri La,
formerly for 50 years Zhongdian and before that for many many centuries as Gyalthang, the royal plains by its Tibetan inhabitants. - Several species of Lactarius related to Lactarius deliciosus, like L. hatsudake and L. sanguifluus
- Ringha Gompa with prayer flags. We met lots of animals and mushrooms there.
- Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) checking out flower at teh Panda center
- Phallus costatus with fly
Phallus costatus visited by a fly that feeds on its tempting sporemass that reeks of decaying meet - Phallus costatus
Phallus costatus in his errected prime. Not 100% sure if it is Ph. costatus. - Panda (Ailuropodus melaonleuca) reclining in Chnegdu Panda Breeding Center
- Number 1 and 2 Matsutake mushrooms on the main mushroom market near Gyalthang / Shangri La
- Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi.
I only know one spot in East Tibet with this beautiful Lily - Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang
- Kathy Welsh smiling at lots of chanterelles! What a nice fruity smell such a pile of Chanties has!
- I love the structure of Polyporus arcularius, a wood digesting Polypore.
- Goats and prayer flags
- Eggs of Amanita hemibapha, the Himalayan Caesar, a choice edible
- Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka
- Be Sha sales woman. Be sha is the Tibetan name for pine mushrooms, but means oak mushroom.
In Tibet they are associated with evergreen oaks. - An orchid found in 4200m
- Ajuga lupulina, the Pagoda Bugleweed!