Taste for wild fungi spreads the wealth

Rare mountain mushrooms popular at home and abroad, but concerns linger over sustainability. Yang Wanli reports.

They say money doesn't grow on trees. But for China's fungi farmers, especially those in the fertile southwest, money has been growing in the ground.

As attitudes toward wild edible mushrooms have evolved along with culinary habits, the families nationwide who plant, harvest and sell them say their lives have been dramatically improved.