The Curious Multi-tool Fungus (Fomes fomentarius)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- You can't eat it. It's not one of the "superstars" of the medicinal mushroom world. But could this unassuming fungus be hiding superpowers?
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0:00 Intro
0:28 What is Fomes fomentarius?
1:12 Identifying Fomes fomentarius
3:37 Otzi the Iceman
5:05 Medicinal Properties and Research
6:47 Amadou (Fomes material)
7:35 Using It For Tinder
8:39 Outro
Maybe Otzi the Iceman, who had some Fomes fomentarius in his possession when his remains were discovered, could have offered some clues. Since he's not talking, we'll unpack a few of the mushroom's secrets in this video!
Like the more commonly known medicinal mushrooms, Fomes fomentarius contains both polysaccharides and terpenes. These compounds have been found to exhibit interesting-and sometimes powerful-properties when extracted from other species and put to the test in lab settings.
There isn't yet a lot of evidence for this mushroom's effectiveness as an antidote for specific illnesses, but researchers are beginning to take an interest in uncovering its secrets.
From its practical use as a fire starter to its potential medicinal power (including fighting inflammation, pain, bacteria and viruses!), the appropriately nicknamed tinder fungus has some serious potential.
Oh yeah, and you can make hats out of it, too. Amadou, anyone?
#medicinalmushrooms #tinderfungus #tinderconk 
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I make a tea out of it, mix it with sugar, and feed it to my bees. Healthiest hives I've ever had. I find mine on old oak trees.
Hmmmm. Definitely a bee lover for sure you are. Good morning bees..... here is your tea. 😊
I'm also a beekeeper, would you tell me hoe to make mushroom tea?
I'd love to see a video where you light it up! 🔥
I was waiting for that XD
Great video. I always see tons of these when I'm out in the woods at my cottage looking for chaga or birch polypore. Thanks for the always interesting content.
Dude, your channel is real RUclips content! I can see the passion about what your doing, and I really appreciate the effort you put in all the details, for the result to be the best. Really motivates me into keep documenting me, and at some point, be able to selfsupply while I grow my own plants & mushrooms.
drinking mushroom coffee right now :) i always learn so much when I watch your channel- thank you!
Wonderful! Thanks for watching!
Thank You....Very cool....I have never seen a birch forest. I live in Virginia... in the States... My Husband & I are planning an epic trip to Canada in our new travel traler
I dont live anywhere near birch trees but this is interesting none the less
I like the Ice Man. Seen lots of this in the river valley last week. 👍
On my bucket list to collect a beautiful one of these specimens in the PNW!!
i love this channel so much
thank you, that made my day :)
I have seen many fungus and many faces in wood, stone, beer suds, whatever. But that is the best mushroom face I have ever seen. I'm 40 BTW and have seen heaps of mushrooms.
You're out there talking about this mushroom in detail (Thank You) and i find that MineEye continues to zoom in on the BirchTrees behind You and MyMind is screaming: "Chaga"!!!
totally! I actually did find chaga while looking for Fomes this time lol (usually it is the otherway around!)
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That's Awesome!
You can actually just pop a dried one off the tree and light the corner of it on fire. There is no flame, but it will smolder for a very very long time. Thats why it's good for bringing fire from one place to another.... if you don't have modern technology
Speaking of birch and fire starting... birch bark is a great firestarter, and the wood burns well. So if you're out camping or find yourself in a survival situation, birch is a good tree to find.
Thanks great video
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)
I have been wondering what this one is. I just touched one today and they are hard. In Alaska they are everywhere. Even 20 plus feet up the tree but I think these trees are not doing too well. You must live up North somewhere. I have found so so many different kinds of shrooms this year that it is unbelievable. PROBABLY why I found your channel. Lol. All I know is that I have taken a few hundred pics this year and I became quite fond of mushroom hunting. It's different everyday
Found about 8 shaggy manes and some other umbrella types that were oozing black stuff allover the surrounding grass in the middle.of some tall grass in a alaskan dog park
Learned about this one from Paul Stamets on JRE :)
It's also accidentally called it "the iceman fungus" to people the other day because I didn't know its name but I knew they found it on him.
I have different mushrooms growing on my fallen Birch tree, but this one is interesting too.
Yes but is it possible to grow it
Also how fresh does a mushroom have to be in order to clone it
Very informative
Thanks for watching!!
3:20 really looks like the Venus Von Willendorf or the Venus of Hohlefels. The fomus fomentarius might have impacted myths and imaginations of early humans.
It's an awesome mushrooms us Primitive living folk use it for fire quite often both for creating fire (using the trama layer/amadou) and transporting it! (Burning the whole fungus which smoulders for many hours) I've got some videos on my channel where I showcase both those things if it's of interest to anyone. 😁🔥
Is it poisonous ?
Like your video and want to send you a humidity controller.
I don't find them on birch. I don't know what kind of tree it is, and the ones that I find are dark in color. and have green moss growing on them.. smell like leather with wd 40, or an oiled glove
I harvest and make teas and tinctures with this fungi
very cool! thanks for sharing
Please talk about the actual results rather than "they have done studies". It doesn't mean anything.
The amadou you make textile and tinder from needs to be prepared to become viable. You can't just light it up. First you need boil the layer between the outer layer and the pores that you want to make amadou of for 12-24 hours to remove as much proteins as possible, then you soak it in water with lye for 5-6 days, then you remove the material and starts to pound it with a hammer while it's still wet. When it has the right thickness you leave it to dry and then it's done.
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Assuming from your lack of a British accent, you are in America. That would mean that it is Not Fomes fomentarius. What you have there is Fomes excavatus, which is the North American taxon. Great info nonetheless.
Takes years and years and years to grow.
Am I mistaken ???
I hear that is an endangered species.
Tbh that mushrooms looks like a heavy set women's body
I see a puggle face with hat on
Pores produce spores 🤔
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