@Spaced92
Sure it
looked like ginseng. But ginseng doesn't cry. So this clearly wasn't regular ginseng. So it could have been literally anything.
Especially since she's now in a cultivation world where anything can happen, it might as well have been 7 Hells Poison Plant, or some other properly xianxia thing.
I wouldn't trust anything I found myself without checking a book about flora and fauna, and especially not if it's clearly not what I think it is, cause the thing I think it is doesn't have vocal chords and/or magical powers.
I dunno much about foraging or how many plants look like ginseng, but like... Even if it didn't cry I would never eat stuff unless I'm 120% sure it's safe.
Even in our world, a ton of deadly plants look like their safe to eat equivalent, like Deathcap mushrooms, and Belladonna berries, or manchineel apples.