A FUNGUS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD

A FUNGUS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD

Yartsa Gunbu in a hand of a ten year old girl.

     The people of tibet of tibet have been discovering and  harvesting these fungi.When you find the fungus you will be extremely proud of yourself. Why would Anyone be proud of finding a fungus? Well this is not any regular fungus it is very expensive one,  a pound of top quality fungi is worth 50,000 dollars. This is twice their weight in gold.                      

     The yartsa gunbu is started of from a ghost moth. The moth starts the cycle of the yartsa gunbu by laying eggs in the ground. The larva hatches from the eggs and it starts to burrow down as it is burrowing down it is infected by spores from full grown yartsa gunbu . The fungus makes the moth to barely rise back to the surface, While the larva is about to make it out of the ground it dies from the spore, the spore then will take the larva's  organs leaving the exoskeleton . It will then make a small thin mushroom at the surface that is 3-4 inches tall.The mushroom will then shoot more spores into the air and start the process all over again.

     The article that in the national geographic magazine is very interesting. I was interested in the Article when I first saw the one pound is 50,000 dollars. It was very intriguing to me.The spore was very famous for it's healing abilities . The Spore is prescribed for many different diseases even HIV.The spore can't be farmed it can only be found in the Tibetan fields. This is related to life in America because it would be able to effect the economy for us.

    I think that the Area of interaction that was used int this was Environments. I believe that the Environment was why the people were able to get the spores. The spore can not be domesticated so it is in there Environment. They have to find the fungus on there feet.