- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 30372 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | NONE Tremella esculenta | Entry Book Number | 46.1896 | |
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| Iso Country | China | TDWG Region | China | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | China | |||
| Uses | Use: FOOD User: Not defined | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Carles WR | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Worth from 8 - 24 teals a catty (1 3/4 lbs). In Dr Henrys notes on Economic Botany of China he mentions (p.15) the edible fungus muerh as growing in the mountains of Obu peh. These wood ears are worth about Hs 35 or $7.7 a picul (133 lbs), and are largely sold. But among them there is found a white fungus called the white or silver wood ear which is worth from Hs 24 to Hs 8 a catty (1 1/3 lbs). The wood ears are to a certain extent cultivated on decayed wood in the mountains and are gathe, red in by the farmers, but the white ears are said for the most part to be stolen by the workmen and disposed of surreptitiously in small parcels. Whether or not the white ear is only an accidental variety of the wood ear. I am unable to say, but the hi, gh price which it commands, seems to make it worthy of study and I should be glad to learn what it is determined to be. It is one of the great delicacies of a Chinese dinner, and small parcels of it are sent as acceptable presents to the highest official, s. | ||||