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Fungi and lichens of the Himalaya, the people who know them, and the field seasons and trainings where the work is done. Every picture names who took it.

A specimen box with sorted mushroom samplesThe specimen box© Funga NetworkSchoolgirls reading mushroom identification cards at a deskIdentification cards© Funga NetworkCarved mani stones spotted with orange lichen, snow peaks behindMani stones© Funga NetworkYaks grazing by a blue tent at a high camp beneath snow peaksYaks at a high camp© Funga NetworkA monsoon-swollen river below forested hills, with a red-roofed shelter on the bankMonsoon river© Funga NetworkWalkers on a moraine path beneath snow peaks and a glacierBelow the glacier© Funga NetworkA high valley with a braided river, stone-walled fields and a cluster of houses under cloudA high valley© Funga NetworkRhododendron in bloom above terraced fields, with snow peaks behindRhododendron above the terraces© Funga NetworkA researcher crouched in a meadow examining a mushroomA closer look© Funga NetworkA group of people gathered on a mountain path during field workOn the path© Funga NetworkA bowl of freshly harvested mushrooms with village houses behindA bowl from the forest© Funga NetworkChildren in school uniform behind a pile of freshly collected mushroomsAfter the collection© Funga NetworkA woman in her kitchen with trays of dried mushroomsDrying the harvest© Funga NetworkA woman from the Tamang community beside a mushroom poster in her shopA poster in the shop© Funga NetworkTwo community members looking at photographs of mushrooms outside a stone houseLooking at the photographs© Funga NetworkTwo women in conversation outside stone houses in a Himalayan villageA conversation in the village© Funga NetworkYarsagumba (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) laid out on a collector's bagYarsagumba on a collector's bag© Funga NetworkLichen hanging from tree branches, with snow peaks behindLichen in the high forest© Funga NetworkLobaria pindarensis, a leafy green lichen, on a branchLobaria pindarensis© Shiva DevkotaA handful of Hypotrachyna nepalensis lichenHypotrachyna nepalensis© Shiva DevkotaA heap of harvested bracket mushrooms on a kitchen tableA harvest of bracket mushrooms© Funga NetworkFreshly picked red bracket fungi in a steel bowl, with prayer flags and a mountain village behindA bowl of red bracket fungi© Funga NetworkA handful of golden mushrooms held in an open palm, in a village kitchen with a kettle on the stoveGolden mushrooms in a village kitchen© Funga NetworkThe gills of a white mushroom seen from below, against the forest canopyGills against the canopy© Funga NetworkThree small scaly orange mushrooms growing from a hollow in a mossy tree trunkGrowing from a hollow in the bark© Funga NetworkThree bright orange cup fungi on gravelly groundOrange cup fungi© Funga NetworkHundreds of tiny pale mushrooms clustered on a mossy tree trunkA trunk covered in tiny mushrooms© Funga NetworkA cluster of pale yellow mushrooms with translucent gills, growing from mossYellow caps on moss© Funga NetworkScaly orange-brown mushroom caps growing in a row along a mossy log, one turned to show its gillsScaly caps along a mossy log© Funga NetworkA white-veiled mushroom on the forest floor among green shootsA white-veiled mushroom on the forest floor© Funga Network

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