Amadou
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- For other uses, see Amadou (disambiguation).
Amadou is a spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi. The species generally used is Fomes fomentarius (formerly Ungulina fomentaria or Polyporus fomentarius) which in English is also called Horse's Hoof Fungus or Tinder Fungus. It is used as tinder (especially after being soaked in a solution of nitre) and in fly fishing, for drying out fly lures. It has great water-absorbing potential.
A lit Amadou will smoulder for several hours - a fact that was used to great effect by our ancestors. Nomadic people would carry an Amadou from place to place, lighting the next fire from the smouldering fungus.
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