Why isn't something so valuable farmed? I have seen great mushroom farms in abandoned tunnels in Pennsylvania.

P.S. Great photos.

It's not for lack of trying. Whoever finds out how to farm these mushrooms will be filthy rich.

This is about a sought-after white mushroom, prized in Japan for infusing dishes with nuances flavors, but it hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber... Interesting none the less.

Also used for rhodiated or palladiated gold-as-in-the-element-aurum.

Sure, I think that's more a literal meaning, rather than the metaphorical sense the article was going for. As a metaphor, it's more common and way longer associated with king cotton.

> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber

I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ) also misses the cotton reference.

It does exist abundantly, but seems mostly to be used in cotton producing countries ...

I thought it was going to be about cocain.

thanks, reminded me of a quite funny old japanese show about how a family got one piece, and how prized it was, specially for the kid , who ends up eating it and not sharing a bit !

In the area that I live there are plenty of eatable mushrooms but sadly none like that. I wonder how it actually tastes but wouldn't ever pay so much for a mushroom