Rare mushrooms like White Truffles and the Yartsa Gunbu are prized for their unique properties and high value. Unique mushrooms like Chorioactis Geaster and Hawaiian Lattice Stinkhorn have scarce ...

For centuries yartsa gunbu has been thought to possess miraculous ... “People could be poisoned,” says Stamets, who has written six books on mushroom cultivation and sells his own mushroom ...

Mushrooms, long revered for their unique flavors ... At the top of the list is the Yartsa Gunbu, also known as the caterpillar fungus. Found in the Tibetan Plateau, this parasitic fungus grows ...

Over-picking and climate change threaten the future of yartsa gunbu and the communities that have come to rely on income generated by the lucrative fungus.