Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.

A farm house in Nyachuka. These houses started to get painted in the late 1990 when Matsutake money enabled farmers to do so. Before that house were unpainted.

Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers

Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.

Dorje, Angela, Tenpe Nyima, Shannon, Velma, Eloise with Prince, aka Agaricus augustus)

A very close relative of the king bolete, Boletus edulis.

Chanterelles! Maybe something like Cantharellus minor, I am not sure.

Drolma king bolete searching.

Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods above Nyachuka

A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)

Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods

Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods

Tashi is observing spore disposal from a Spathularia

Matsutake collector we met in the oak woods

Spathularia flava, a common fungus in East Tibet

An accident. No insurance cards out there. It has to be settled right there. An hour later a deal was struck and the road opened.

Searching for porcini

Rheum alexandrae Alexanders Rhubarb, an high altitude specialist

A species of Boletus or Xerocomus

Looks like an Allium prattii to me, but there is many different species of wild onions.