How can closely related plant species occur on two continents, thousands of miles apart? This distribution pattern is known as disjunction, and it’s a particular area of interest for Dr. Jun Wen, an ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Broke and down on his luck, Billy Joe Hurley turned to the only way he knew how to make a living: poaching ginseng. But after his latest in a long string of arrests, federal ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Ginseng hunting season is getting started, but the U.S. Forest Service said it would be paused in two national forests this year to preserve the wild ginseng population. In a release ...

Though the ginseng root is a mainstay of Chinese medicine, it's as American as apple pie: in fact, for over 300 years, Americans have exported ginseng to China. Today an acre of ginseng can bring a ...

Sep. 17—In more than three decades of combing the woods of Schuylkill County, Dennis "Pap" Knauss has yet to see a wild ginseng plant. "In all my years on the trail, I've never seen wild ginseng," ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Iris Gao keeps a ginseng root in her office. It’s fixed on black velvet with three other bleached-brown specimens, all of them twisty and otherworldly and ...