never any luck with lighting fires with fungus. Quite a bit of luck lighting my spirit with fungus but that's a different story <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I'll have to try the curly black birch with the spark-lite.

Also I have great luck with the finest twigs from standing evergreens - not sure which evergree. Simply get a bunch of them by strippiing you hand along the larger branch and they all come off then bunch them up and put a little bit of spark-catcher tinder (cotton ball, milk-week, lint, dry punk, etc.) in the middle and throw a spark in. The dry twigs are small enough to catch from the smallest flame. I do this while holding them together. When they catch they become somewhat of a torch which can be jammed into the teepee of kindling to good effect.