Ginseng Sold for Quarter of a Million Dollars!

This plant grows wild in the woods behind my house. I sometimes make tea out of it.

From what I've learned from Chinese history. The significance of Ginseng especially age and size can fetch a ton of cash.

Must be the same guy who bought the 1787 Chateau Lafite.

When i lived in Korea there was a story about about a guy who had rented a cabin in the wilderness for vacation. In that cabin he found a ginseng root and couldn't resist...he ate the whole thing. Turned out that the cabin was owned by a wild ginseng hunter who had recently discovered the find of his life: a c. 300 year old ginseng root that he figured to worth nearly $500,000.

No word on why he would have left such a valuable thing around for the renters, especially Korean renters who just can't say no to ginseng.