Thread: Chaga in New Zealand?

I never heard of Chaga until now but after a quite Google and uncle YouTube... WOW!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q2dGq6tISc

Originally Posted by Elrond

The bracket fungus that grows on native beech works just as well. But requires a lot of prep.
I needed to boil the it a few times ina lye solution and work it to death before I could get it to a workable solution.

I also use it for drying dry flies. Works a a lot better than synthetic products.

Spot on Elrond....with a name like that im not surprised your informed of such things!

I've seen examples of the bracket fungus prepped like that and deemed it too labour intensive to be worth while for me. Especially when you can just cut up a throw away pushbike inner tube for the same outcome.