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October 14, 2013

Conflict and clashes over China's prized caterpillar fungus
Tongren, China (AFP) Oct 14, 2013
In a dirty, dimly-lit room in a backstreet of one of China's poorest rural towns, a trader combs his leathery fingers through a $17,000 bag of caterpillar fungus, lamenting the curse that its value has wrought. The parasitic fungus, Cordyceps sinensis to science, only exists high on the Tibetan plateau, where it grows through the body of its host - the ghost moth caterpillar - killing it and bursting out of the top of its head. What looks like a small brown twig on the end of a crinkled yellow ... read more

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