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].
Fruting body :Burned and the smoke inhaled to treat headache, or crumbled into an ear to treat earache [Dene 13].