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You're in the woods. You've cut your finger. You need a band-aid, but you used your last one on your foot where your new hiking boots were rubbing you raw. What do you do? You look for a birch tree that has bracket fungus growing on it and get to work. 

Fallscrape over on Instructables tells us how to identify the shrooms, also known as birch polypore. Here's a picture of what the fungi looks like. 

To see how to actually turn 'em into band-aids, follow this link. For further info about identification, check out this page at Mushroom Expert.

• mushrooms
• fungi
• first-aid
• band-aids