• DOI:10.1007/s12231-008-9038-3
Corpus ID: 29381859

Yartsa Gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) and the Fungal Commodification of Tibet’s Rural Economy

@article{Winkler2008YartsaG,
  title={Yartsa Gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) and the Fungal Commodification of Tibet’s Rural Economy},
  author={D. Winkler},
  journal={Economic Botany},
  year={2008},
  volume={62},
  pages={291-305}
}

• D. Winkler
• Published 2008
• Biology
• Economic Botany

Yartsa Gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) and the Fungal Commodification of Tibet’s Rural Economy. Cordyceps sinensis is a mushroom that parasitizes larvae of Thitarodes (Hepialus) moths, which inhabit the alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. Tibetans have used the mushroom, which they call yartsa gunbu (“summer-grass, winter-worm”) for many centuries, if not millennia. A 350% increase in the price paid to pickers between 1997 and 2004 has turned this tiny mushroom into the single most important… Expand

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