Word: songrong
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Boasting one of the richest ecosystems on the planet, the lush, temperate mountains of northern Yunnan are, for two months of the year, home to maturing matsutake (known in Mandarin as songrong). When Japanese harvests were devastated by an insect-borne disease 15 years ago?a disaster from which the Japanese industry has yet to recover?these mountains became the world's matsutake hot spot. Yunnan now supplies Japan with more than half of its annual demand...
...later in a luxuriant green valley strewn with pink and violet wildflowers. From here his family scours the uplands. The locals have never rated matsutake highly (they call them "dirt-termite mushrooms") and still can't believe the prices they fetch. "Before the Japanese came, there were so many songrong, we would use baskets to gather them," Sui-nong recalls. "We'd put them in soup or sell them at the market for three yuan [35?] a kilo." Today, top-quality matsutake earn pickers 150 yuan ($18) each, skyrocketing to $500 per kilogram during the meager end-of-season period...
...tree. He will guard them for two weeks until they get big enough to fetch a top price. Boasting one of the richest ecosystems on the planet, the lush, temperate mountains of northern Yunnan are, for two months of the year, home to maturing matsutake (known in Mandarin as songrong). When Japanese harvests were devastated by an insect-borne disease 15 years ago - a disaster from which the Japanese industry has yet to recover - these mountains became the world's matsutake hot spot. Yunnan now supplies Japan with more than half of its annual demand. The matsutake boom has boosted...
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