Frost’s Descent, 23 October to 6 November
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Traditional mushroom

Mushrooms hold a place apart in the Chinese pharmacopoeia: neither quite plants nor simple foods, they have enjoyed an old prestige in the treatises as in the iconography. This family gathers the great classics of the fungal kingdom, generally of neutral nature and sweet flavour.

Poria cocos, engraved plate by Wu Qijun, 1848
Plate: Wu Qijun, 1848
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