Latin name:
Trametes suaveolens
(L. Ex Fries) Fries.
Botanical family:
Polyporaceae
Growth habit:
Fungi
Vernacular name(s):
diamond willow fungus (Eng.)
tramète parfumée (Fr.)
wiy (hkimasiygan Cree)
Uses:
•
Dried and powdered, used as part of a compound medicine [Dene: 13]. Dried fungus burned and inhaled as a medicine [Dene: 17].
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Fruting body :
Burned and the smoke inhaled to treat headache, or crumbled into an ear to treat earache [Dene 13].