[Regia-NA] Re: Making Fire

[Eileen Young]

Hi
So what is the NA equivelent of these fungus?
Eileen


"Schuster, Robert L." <SchusterRL@umsystem.edu> wrote:

>
>
>There are two main types of fungus associated with fire-starting: Birch
>Polypore (Piptoporus betulinus), also known as Razor-strop Fungus, which as
>its name suggests, grows primarily on birch trees, is much better than the
>birch bark as a tinder, and is shaped like a horse's hoof - and was also
>used for keeping a blade edge; and Hoof Fungus (Fomes fomentarius) a.k.a.
>Tinder Fungus, whose habitat is usually birch in Northern England and
>Scotland [The North! :-)] , and beech and sycamore in Southern England.
>
>Guğrum
>
>PS  Neither of these is edible!
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>
>--thank good you included that last part Guğrum!
>
>after reading the first part i was sitting here thinking
>"Damn, you know what sounds good? a Hoof Fungus salad, tossed with a little Polypore and with crutons!mmmmmmmmmm"
>
>Halvgrimr
>using that damn odd NA humor;)
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