Description

Purple Pinwheel (Marasmius haematocephalus) is one of the tropics' most beautiful parachutes, wine-purple pleated caps on wire-thin stipes, and this liquid culture delivers verified living stock. Out-Grow's liquid culture syringe contains live, actively growing Marasmius haematocephalus mycelium in sterile nutrient solution.

No cultivation protocol exists, and the tiny fruiting bodies explain the economic silence, not any biological barrier: this is a litter saprotroph that cultures on standard media. Its value is the culture itself and the beauty of what it represents.

Why Work With Purple Pinwheel?
The pinwheel marasmioids are icons of tropical forest photography and nearly absent from culture lists. A maintained M. haematocephalus isolate serves litter decomposition ecology, marasmioid comparative work, and the collector's simple satisfaction of holding one of the prettiest species in the fungal kingdom as living stock.

Working Conditions:
Expand on MEA or PDA at 74 to 84 F. Malt-based broths inoculated from plates and gently shaken follow standard practice for saprotrophic agarics. Expect fine, thread-like, low-density growth in the horsehair manner.

Key Characteristics of Purple Pinwheel (Marasmius haematocephalus):

• Ecology: Tropical litter saprotroph fruiting as wine-purple pleated pinwheels on hair-thin stipes.
• Culture Behavior: Fine, low-density marasmioid growth on standard media.
• Collector Value: One of the most photographed tropical fungi, rarely available as living culture.

Taxonomy of Purple Pinwheel (Marasmius haematocephalus):

• Kingdom: Fungi
• Phylum: Basidiomycota
• Class: Agaricomycetes
• Order: Agaricales
• Family: Marasmiaceae
• Genus: Marasmius
• Species: Marasmius haematocephalus

Storage and Usage Tips:
Store your Purple Pinwheel liquid culture syringe in a cool, dark location without hard chilling and expand promptly onto fresh agar.