[Steppes] Mushroom inks

[suzanna Herbalist via Steppes]

Puffball I think probably not that permanent  though might be worked up like iron gall ink. Don't think black cohosh would improve the permanence a lot.
Puff balls do NOT in the slightest resemble amanitas. Puff balls are round balls, no stem, no gills. Amanitas are a graceful white gilled mushroom with a nice stem and annular ring around stem. Puff balls are edible when fresh  white when cut open. As they age they yellow  then turn black and either deliquesce or dry out.
Have fun experimentingSuzanna  herbalist Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note® 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

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From: Elaine Crittenden via Steppes <steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> 
Date: 11/27/2016  1:36 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org 
Subject: [Steppes] Mushroom inks 

Just found this on Wikipedia when looking for info on puffball mushrooms (NOTE: deadly amanita looks like them at times.). 

"Puffballs were traditionally used in Tibet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet> for making ink <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink> by burning them, grinding the ash, then putting them in water and adding glue liquid and "a nye shing ma decoction", which, when pressed for a long time, made a black dark substance that was used as ink.[3]"

I checked on "nye shing ma" and the closest I could get was “black cohosh”. Anyone ever tried making puffball mushroom ink? Is it permanent enough to ID equipment?

YIS,
HL Lete Bithespring
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