Other Economic Mushrooms of the Tibetan Plateau	Mushroom Tours to Tibet
	Cantharellus minor for sale at the mushroom market in Dartsedo / Kangding, Ganzi TAP, Aug. 6, 2007 © Daniel Winkler Gyalthang ladies with a load of Chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius mixed with a few C.minor, Chinese: Jiyou Jun = chicken fat mushroom) ready to be sold to a wholesaler at the mushroom market in Gyalthang (Chinese: Zhongdian), Zhongdian / now Shangrila County, Dechen / Deqing TAP, Yunnan, July 2000  © Daniel Winkler
An orange birch bolete, probably Leccinum versipelle, at the mushroom market in Dartsedo / Kangding, Ganzi TAP, Aug. 6, 2007 © Daniel Winkler	Kongpo man holding a Leccinum (scaly bolete, Chinese: Niugan Jun). He just came down from the alpine grasslands, but had no luck in finding caterpillar fungus and picked this Leccinum for dinner instead.  Photo: Sero / Saiwo, 3400m, Kongpo Gyamda / Gongbo Jiangda County, Nyingchi / Linzhi Prefecture, Tibet AR, June 2006 © Daniel Winkler
Hydnum (Sarcodon) imbricatum, Hedgehog mushroom (Tibetan: Shadrö = meat stomach,  Chinese: Zhângzi Jun) is a popular and commonly eaten mushroom in Tibet. It is a widely distributed root-associated coniferous forest fungi collected all over the area. There are also other,  similar, big brown Hydnum species in trade.   Photo: August 1998, Derge (Dege) County, Ganzi / Kandze TAP, W-Sichuan.© Daniel Winkler	Khampa lady in Lithang carrying a load of Shadrö to the wood fired dryer in the next village. Photo: July 30, 2007, Dala District, Lithang County, Ganzi / Kandze TAP, W-Sichuan.© Daniel Winkler
Amanita hemibapha var. ochracea, a close relative of Amanita caesarea, Caesar's mushroom (in box ), for sale by a Sichuanese in Kangding. Photo: August 2001, Kangding / Dartsedo, Ganzi / Kandze TAP, W-Sichuan.© Daniel Winkler	Amanita hemibapha Amanita hemibapha and its ochre variety Amanita hemibapha var. ochera are ecto-mycorrhizal fungi known in Tibetan as Shing-A, the chicken egg mushroom, basically the same name as in Italian where it is known as "ovulo buono", the good egg. Also its Chinese name Jidan Jun refers to the egg stage when the mushroom is still mostly covered by the whitish universal veil, but already shows part of its orange, egg yolk colored, unopened, egg-shaped cap. The other, reddish mushroom is Hygrophorous russula and to the right Tricholoma cf saponaceum, regarded as an edible in the area.    Photo: August 2007, Kangding / Dartsedo, Ganzi / Kandze TAP, W-Sichuan.© Daniel Winkler Young Amanita hemibapha and Amanita hemibapha var. ochera at the mushroom market in Dartsedo / Kangding, Ganzi TAP, Aug. 6, 2007, © Daniel Winkler
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