Mushrooms Worth Their Weight in Gold (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) - With ‪Zhengyang Wang‬

One of the most famous mushrooms of all time is actually worth its weight in gold because of its rarity - Ophiocordyceps sinensis. This mushroom is also called caterpillar fungus, yartsa gunbu, or winter worm summer grass, and is a fungus that takes over a ghost moth larva and sprouts a mushroom out of its head. It's collected all around the Himalayan mountains as high as 10,500 feet above sea level. Today on the show we bring on Harvard entomologist ‪Zhengyang Wang‬ who focuses on the actu...