In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this ...

Cordyceps is a genus of fungi that hails from Asia, informally known as 'Himalayan gold.' Due to its broad spectrum of health ...

Sometimes selling for more than 3 times its weight in gold! Caterpillar fungus grows in the remote Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan Mountains but that's not the only place you can find it.

Himalayan balsam can erode riverbanks and grow to heights of up to three metres. The Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust said it would use a pathological rust fungus, which was found in the ...

Sometimes selling for more than 3 times its weight in gold! Caterpillar fungus grows in the remote Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan Mountains but that's not the only place you can find it.

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The thing Silang is searching for, on hands and knees, 15,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan plateau, is ...

Nail fungus is a frustratingly common ailment — about 10% of people are expected to get it at some point in their lives — and it can be tough to address because medications have to penetrate ...

A Crucial Income for Mountain Communities Often called Himalayan Gold, yartsa gunbu results from a unique interaction in which fungus spores infect moth larvae living underground in the soil.