The wild roots, considered the finest, are about $105 a pound in Japan.
That is just one reason naturalists hope that bears will eventually give up the bright lights and return to their wild roots.
They also use wild roots, tubers, seeds, fruits and meat.
The wild root's sometimes eerie resemblance to a human perhaps explains why the Chinese word for ginseng means "man root."
"We go out in the bush and look for wild roots," she says.
The residents of Tōno were reduced to eating wild roots by the famine of this period and many died or moved away.
Hires marketed it as a solid concentrate of sixteen wild roots and berries.
People began to harvest wild edible roots, plants, grasses, nuts, and bark in the forests.
"Can supplement, hunt for meat, eat wild roots, bark, leaves."
Orne thought of a Chargonian curse: May you grow like a wild root with your head in the ground!