IT measures 6cm in length at most, but it can be worth up to 20 yuan (RM9.12) a piece.
But even more costly than the dumbfounding price of the worm-like fungus Cordyceps, or aweto, experts say, could be a deteriorating ecosystem in one of Chinas most ecologically vulnerable places.
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