From Mark Boyle's book The Moneyless Man, making paper using found materials:
Birch Polypore mushrooms as seen at Ott Biological Preserve near Battle Creek, Michigan.
Bonus link: Using stumps with Dryad Saddle growing on them to make paper
FYI fun fact
ReplyDeleteIt is reported that the 5,000-year-old Ötzi the Iceman carried 4 pieces of this fungus and the conclusion was that he would have used it as tinder.
http://www.medicalmushrooms.net/fomes-fomentarius/
I remember reading that conks\bracketfungi had other uses, too.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=conk+fungus+uses