Description

Orange Faint Foot (Heimiomyces tenuipes) is a vivid orange wood-dweller on fine dark stipes, and this liquid culture delivers verified living stock of a genus that laboratory groups keep for its chemistry. Out-Grow's liquid culture syringe contains live, actively growing Heimiomyces tenuipes mycelium in sterile nutrient solution.

No fruiting protocol exists for this species, but the genus is demonstrably cultivable at the mycelial level: research groups maintain Heimiomyces isolates in solid and liquid culture for secondary metabolite production, which gives this culture a working laboratory pedigree.

Why Work With Orange Faint Foot?
Heimiomyces has earned research attention for pigments and secondary metabolites, and living isolates are the raw material of that work. For collectors, the genus is essentially absent from commercial lists, and the orange species is its most striking face.

Working Conditions:
Expand on MEA or PDA at 70 to 80 F. Expect deliberate, fine growth, with cultures sometimes expressing yellow-orange pigment tones on rich media. Liquid expansion follows the slow-and-steady pattern documented for the genus.

Key Characteristics of Orange Faint Foot (Heimiomyces tenuipes):

• Ecology: Tropical to subtropical wood saprotroph fruiting in vivid orange with dark, fine stipes.
• Culture Behavior: Deliberate mycelial growth, with the genus maintained in research culture for metabolite work.
• Research Value: A pigment- and metabolite-bearing genus with an active laboratory record.

Taxonomy of Orange Faint Foot (Heimiomyces tenuipes):

• Kingdom: Fungi
• Phylum: Basidiomycota
• Class: Agaricomycetes
• Order: Agaricales
• Family: Mycenaceae
• Genus: Heimiomyces
• Species: Heimiomyces tenuipes

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