From 'Fire Esca' to 'Esca of Grapevine'
The use of tinder (‘esca’ or ‘amadou’) prepared from basidiocarps of some bracket fungi, e.g. Fomes fomentarius and Phellinus igniarius as an easy-to-burn matter goes back to the man’s conquest of fire. Archaeological finds, such as fragments of tinder, flint-stones and traces of pyrite carried by t...
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Firenze University Press
2006-04-01
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| Series: | Phytopathologia Mediterranea |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/pm/article/view/5185 |