Description

Stump Puffball (Apioperdon sp.) is our lab's maintained puffball isolate, offered at genus level as an honest identification, and this liquid culture delivers verified living stock from a group rarely seen in any collection. Out-Grow's liquid culture syringe contains live, actively growing Apioperdon mycelium in sterile nutrient solution.

Apioperdon puffballs are wood-loving saprotrophs, the group famous for fruiting in crowds on rotting stumps. That lignicolous ecology means no host dependency, standard media, and a legitimate, if unpublished, target for fruiting trials on well-rotted wood.

Why Work With Stump Puffball?
Puffball cultures of any kind are scarce, and a genus-level isolate is working material for the taxonomy-minded: sequence and key it and the identification tightens. For the experimentalist, a crowd-fruiting wood puffball is one of the more plausible gasteroid fruiting candidates available.

Working Conditions:
Expand on MEA or PDA at 70 to 80 F. Expect whitish, even growth with the occasional cordlike organization wood puffballs show on richer media. For fruiting attempts, deeply rotted hardwood kept consistently moist mirrors the natural stump habitat.

Key Characteristics of Stump Puffball (Apioperdon sp.):

• Ecology: Wood-inhabiting saprotrophic puffball, fruiting gregariously on rotting stumps and logs.
• Culture Behavior: Even, unfussy growth on standard media, occasionally forming mycelial cords.
• Research Value: A sequencing-ready genus-level isolate from a group nearly absent in culture.

Taxonomy of Stump Puffball (Apioperdon sp.):

• Kingdom: Fungi
• Phylum: Basidiomycota
• Class: Agaricomycetes
• Order: Agaricales
• Family: Lycoperdaceae
• Genus: Apioperdon
• Species: Apioperdon sp.

Storage and Usage Tips:
Store your Stump Puffball liquid culture syringe in a cool, dark location and use within six months for peak vigor.