The fungus, which cannot yet be cultivated artificially, grows best in hollow stout camphor trees, so some unscrupulous, profit-hungry businessmen have hired workers to go into the mountains, cut holes in the trees, and wait for "harvest."
目前牛樟菇仍無法人工培養，空心牛樟卻恰是溫床，唯利是圖而不擇手段的商人，於是花錢雇工上山把牛樟樹挖空，以待「收成」；牛樟因此又多一劫。