Stellera chamaejasme, with yellow and white flowers

Suillus cavipes growing in Yading

Ringha Gompa with prayer flags. We met lots of animals and mushrooms there.

Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) checking out flower at teh Panda center

Pterocephalus hookeri, great geometry!

I love the structure of Polyporus arcularius, a wood digesting Polypore.

A small Primula common in Nyade / Yading> I wishe di could attach a name!

Phallus regulosus seen while visiting the Panda breeding station in Chengdu on the last day

A Pheasant (Phasanius colchicus) crossing the road.

Panda (Ailuropodus melaonleuca) reclining in Chnegdu Panda Breeding Center

A tiny orchid seen Nyade

Mushroom dealer with Himalayan Gypsies (Rozites emodensis) and Leccinum.

Neottia acuminata orchis,

Drolma looking for porcinis high above a valley in Nyachuka (Chinese: Yajiang)

Flower of Neottia acuminata that is distributed from the Himalayas to Korea and East Sibirea

Mushroom dealer in Dartsendo with a Tricholoma species looking quite a bit like T. saponaceum, but it is not the Soap knight.

Mushroom dealer in Dartsendo / Kangding holding King boletes

Mt Chanadorje with pilgrims and prayer flags

Mt Chenrezi named for the Buddha of Compasion it reaches 6032 m / 19790 ft

Mt Chanadorje peak