Cover page Tepu village with Tapanahoni River from the air
Pleurotus djamor, a great edible Oyster mushroom. Note the different color in the fruiting bodies of the same mycelium
Pleurotus djamor var roseus - Tropical oyster, a great edible mushroom
Poison dart frog - Dendrobates tinctorius seen in Tepu
Esero, a local mushroom expert and his parrot inspect a Stereum with parasitizing Tremella in Tepu
Cantharellus guyanensis field around the Teramu (Caesalipinaceae) tree
Cantharellus guyanensis Display
Cantharellus guyanensis in a transport basket made on the spot
Cantharellus Rayan Kiran Daniel Romano
Daniel showing mushroom pictures in 8th grade, the highest grade in Tepu school
Passion fruit (Passiflora sp.) flower with ant
Cookeina with Basha Jan in Tepu
Cookeina sulcipes? The taxonomy of Cookeina is not clear yet.
Cookeina speciosa fried - great crunchy consistency and good taste like fungal baconW Ms
A Trogia, quite similar to Trogia venenata from Yunnan that is infamous having killed 300 people.
Lentinus crinitus seen from the side. A rather firm if not tough, but edible mushroom. Turning it into a powder as mushroom spice or cooking it long too soften helps.
Lentinus crinitus (var. berteroi?), the Fringed Sawgill is an edible mushroom in the polypore family.
A young Tremella fuciformis known in China as Silver or Snow fungus and appreciated as food stuff and medicine. It usually parasitizes on (Annulo-)Hypoxylon fungus.
Auricularia delicata, a common edible wood ear. Strangely we found only these babies. Apparently it had not rained sufficient in Tepu yet.
A very young Auricularia polytricha, the rains were not sufficient for a good crop of wood ears