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02.22.18China’s Caves Are Hiding Plants That Exist Nowhere Else in the World
Washington Post
At first glance, a cave doesn’t seem the likeliest home for exotically lush flora. It’s dark, damp and dingy, more likely to host sparkly stalagmites than bristly bushes.
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10.07.15Once Seed Was Planted, Chinese Headwear Fad Grew Like Weeds
New York Times
Across China, grown-ups are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers.
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09.05.12
Making a Killing on Herbal Medicine
Mushroom gatherers converge and crawl on hillsides in Qinghai province every March while foraging for wild caterpillar fungus.Theirs is not a garden-variety morel hunt. Caterpillar fungus is a hard-to-find parasite that infects and mummifies a host...