crop
noun
1.
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.
2.
the yield of such produce for a particular season.
**3.
the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds. **
Anything that is harvested, is a crop.
You should share some stories. I’m a semi-transplant (bought the place 25 years ago, moved up here 2 years ago), and the locals have some very colorful stories involving bears, bees and firearms encountered during their forays into 'sang harvesting.
I understand most ginseng (“sang”) is sold to China-but do the locals ever use the stuff?
If it’s more than a single fight, shouldn’t it be <Pedant On-going conflict!>
Citing Wiki doesn’t even count as pedantry.
Various definitions from here:
The huckleberry (state fruit of Idaho) seems to be extremely resistant to domestication. But then again, if they were more readily available, we wouldn’t have the “fun” of driving up to Priest Lake (Idaho) and fighting the bears over them. 
Current research says it is almost impossible to domesticate the wild huckleberry species but efforts are being made. Commercial huckleberry harvesters most likely don’t pick their berries by hand, but most huckleberries are still grown in the wild (mostly in national parks). However, the Western Huckleberry and Bilberry Association is actively fostering the commercial development of huckleberry-based industries.
Truffles have been cultivated to some extent (finally), but the process is basically a crap shoot. Ramps, I didn’t know there was a issue with, I used ramps gathered during my thru hike on the Appalachian trail, and they were a nice addition to some trail foods, but really didn’t consider them more then a flavor enhancement of the opportunity to what I packed.
Or (in this case) possibly the trowel.
I don’t think saffron has ever been cultivated either and it’s probably more expensive per ounce than truffles.
Saffron is cultivated in many places: Iran, Greece, Afghanistan, Morocco. . . The main reason it’s so expensive is that the stigmas must be plucked from the flowers by hand. No one has figured out a way to automate the process.
Witch Hazel generally only grows wild. American Distilling in my home state of Connecticut, the largest (and possibly only large scale domestic) manufacturer of Witch Hazel, actually goes out into the woods to various wild stands to collect specimens for distillation.
The website for the manufacture, Witch Hazel Is The Power, We Are The Source | American Distilling, goes into some detail. I am uncertain if they use only wild growing stands due to the limited demand, or because cultivation is infeasible.
Well in that case, **diamonds. **
(I know there are artificial diamond, but I wouldn’t call them “cultivated”.)
And the poor peasants who perform that task are looked down on by their neighbors, almost as if they carry some sort of mark.
Kayaker, that will be twelve minutes in the penalty booth.
Actually artificial diamonds are called cultivated.
Not while they light their farts and drink beer from the can watching Nascar, anyway.
Twelve minutes ?!? … felony assault only get you five … ease up ref.
Golden Seal has defied cultivation. Several mushrooms have been mentioned, there’s quite a few more to be added. Ummm … would you include a suave and debonair demeanor, I don’t think that’s been successfully cultivated.
I have a patch of ramps growing in my herb bed that I planted from seed. There was no particular difficulty growing it and it comes back every year. It can also be propagated from bulbs (and I think that’s why it comes back every year). I see no reason it couldn’t be grown commercially if there was demand. You can use the bulbs like onions (translate that passage into French, if you can, where the French word for bulb is “oignon”) but we prefer the leaves as a variation on chives.
There is a local “Ramp festival” around here in the spring.
Apparently you can cultivate these according to http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/growing-ramps
They are also known as ‘wild leeks’. Now that sounds more like a band name to me, but YMMV.
Interesting-witch hazel used to grow around here (I’d notice the odd yellow flowers in November). But I haven’t seen WH bushes in years-is there some pest killing them?