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To: Neeka who wrote (119241)	8/9/2006 11:25:27 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Here's my favorite medicinal plant. I used to carry a .30-30 in the woods to shoot them down off larch trees. They were valuable and we sold them to a broker. He accumulated them and sold them to pharmaceutical companies, who processed them into quinine. I never got rich, though. It's called Fomitopsis officinalis, or quinine conk. When I was hunting them in the woods they were called Fomes officinalis, and they are also known as Polyporous officinalis. They grow mainly on larch trees in North America, but I've seen them on other species in Alaska, and on Douglas-fir stumps in Oregon. forestryimages.org