"Amadou, tinder conk, hoof fungus, tsuriganetabe" Pure mushroom culture on agar - medium In the past this mushroom was used to make fire. The iceman "Ötzi" carried one of this tinder mushrooms wtih him. Convenient substrate: Hardwood (most suitable: birch, alder, willow, aspen) In the past, this mushroom was known for its fire starting effekt. Since thousands of years, people used the tinder fungus in combinataion with a flint stone. Ötzi, the famous ice mummy (was found in 1991 in the Alps, a few kilomters distant to Innsbruck) carried one Fomes fomentarius fruitbody in his bag. This mushroom was also used for wound treatment. Please klick here for informations, how to use the culture! This culture was cultivated from spores by our mycological team and refined via natural selection. We declare explicit that you may use this cultures only for inoculation of substrates. Copiing and reselling is expressly prohibited! Important informations for ordering process of cultures: Please note, that this mushroom cultures are inoculated fresh for each order. Lead time: We shipp your culture as soon, as the agar-medium is fully colonized. This will take aprrox. 4 weeks after we received payment. Living culures will only survive a few days during shipping. Therefor we can only guarantee a perfect quality for shippings with EMS Express Mail Service or DPD Direct Parcle Distribution. Important information for shippings to any country which is NOT member of the EU: Please check the import regulations of your country. There may be a quarantine for living cultures. In this case the culture may arrive in a bad quality at your place. You are not sure, if your country is inside the customs territory of the EU? - Please click here and visit the homepage of Euopean Union!