[Regia-NA] Re: Making Fire

[J. Kim Siddorn]

It ought to be the same. Silver birch follows the ice, it is the first tree
to grow on the tundra, so we ought to share it internationally - it was only
10,000 years ago after all.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

"Spring in the air?"
"Spring in the air yerself !"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eileen Young" <JuditheileenY@netscape.net>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:22 PM
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.
> >
> >Guğrum
> >
> >PS Neither of these is edible!
> >_______________________________________________
> >
> >--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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