[Regia-NA] Re: Making Fire

[Linda Rice]

Looks like this grows pretty much across the Northern Hemisphere, I
found sites in almost every language.

Check out the cool part about Oetzi Man:
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dec2001.html

In Canada:
http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/diseases/CTD/Group/Heart/heart3_e.html

In Finland:
http://sienet.luontonetti.com/en/ryh/kaavat.htm

In Polish, but has a good pic:
http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Fomes_fomentarius.htm

In Russia:
http://rwn.boom.ru/fungi/Fomes_fomen_e.html

In the UK:
http://www.lincstrust.co.uk/species/fungi/hoof.html

I really love it when people ask odd questions, I get to learn so much
interesting stuff!

Pax,

Linda


-----Original Message-----
From: list-regia-na-admin@lig.net [mailto:list-regia-na-admin@lig.net]
On Behalf Of Eileen Young
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:22 PM
To: list-regia-na@lig.net
Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] Re: Making Fire

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.
>
>Gu=F0rum
>
>PS =A0Neither of these is edible!