Fresh het bot sell for 45,000–60,000 kip/kg, but older mushrooms only earn 40,000 kip/kg. When exported to Thailand they are worth 35,000 kip/kg fresh, or 100,000 kip/kg dried. In Luangprabang, dried fruiting bodies fried with bergamot leaves and lemongrass sell for 60,000 kip/bag.

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Fruiting body of Het Bod harvested from forest

 

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