Latin name: Fomes pinicola (Swartz) Cooke
Botanical family: Polyporaceae
Growth habit: Fungi
Vernacular name(s): Pinicola brown crumbly rot (Eng.)
polypore marginé, amadouvier des pins (Fr.)
mech-quah-too (Cree)
Uses:
Powdered and mixed with water to make a paste applied to wounds or taken internally as an emetic [Cree: 76]. Smoked to treat headache [Dene: 98].