You might see a great spread of white mushrooms growing on the withered trunk of an old dead maple, truly manifesting the idea "working even at the time of death." It used to be that maple trees provided the best place for raising mushrooms, but sadly, in recent years the maples were almost all cut down, and they are very rare these days, so production has shifted to germ-free packaged propagation.
偶見大片白菇長在一棵枯死的楓香上，真是「鞠躬盡瘁、死而後已」，原來楓香是培養香菇最好的材料，可惜近年來，楓香砍伐殆盡，已不多見，多改無菌包繁殖。