Wine Cap Mushroom Plate Culture

NSSRA2 - WI Wine Cap (Stropharia rugosoannulata)
$74.99

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Species & Strain

Start your next cultivation project with a clean, versatile source of Wine Cap genetics. The Wine Cap Mushroom Plate Culture contains Stropharia rugosoannulata, a robust species valued by outdoor growers for its ability to thrive in garden beds, wood chips, and shaded growing spaces.

This Wine Cap Mushroom Plate Culture is designed for growers who want to expand their own cultures rather than begin with a ready-to-fruit product. Use it as a foundation for building master bags, inoculating grain, preparing liquid culture, or developing additional spawn for future projects.

Plate cultures offer a practical way to maintain and propagate mushroom genetics in a controlled lab setting. With the culture established on a nutrient-rich agar plate, growers can transfer healthy mycelium to a preferred medium using appropriate sterile technique.

  • Species: Wine Cap, Stropharia rugosoannulata
  • Format: Mushroom culture on an agar plate
  • Suitable for making master bags, grain spawn, and liquid culture
  • Useful for experienced hobby growers, educators, and small-scale cultivators
  • Made to order for culture quality and freshness

Wine Cap mycelium is known for its vigorous growth and is especially well suited to outdoor cultivation. Once expanded into spawn, it can become part of a garden-bed or wood-chip growing system that blends naturally into shaded landscapes and productive garden spaces.

Because this is a laboratory culture rather than a fruiting kit, it requires sterile equipment, suitable media, and an understanding of culture transfer. It is not intended to fruit directly from the plate, and results depend on sterile technique, environmental conditions, and the grower’s chosen propagation method.

Please plan ahead: Plate cultures are made to order, with current processing times of approximately 3–4 weeks depending on the strain. This production schedule helps ensure cultures are prepared specifically for your order.

Whether you are expanding a home laboratory, developing outdoor spawn, or building a reliable culture library, the Wine Cap Mushroom Plate Culture provides a flexible starting point for thoughtful mushroom cultivation.

NSSRA1 - Winslow Wine Cap

Stropharia rugosoannulata. Cloned from a wine cap specimen that was naturalized on Winslow farm (an organic farm in Falmouth, Maine.) A prolific fruiter that tends to produce throughout the growing season. Can tolerate a wide variety of substrates. 

NSSRA2 - WI Wine Cap

Cloned from a wine cap specimen that was naturalized in Wisconsin. 

NSSRA3 - Radical Wine Cap

Cloned from a wine cap specimen obtained from Radical Mycology Convergence. 

NSSRA4 - Mausum Wine Cap

Cloned from a wine cap specimen obtained from Mausum Valley Mushrooms.

Frequently Asked Questions

We recommend absolute beginners start with our Spray & Grow Kits, which make growing mushrooms at home super easy.

We want you to have the best possible experience with every North Spore product and guarantee free replacements within 30 days of receipt for any damaged, contaminated, or unusable product.

Absolutely! Mushroom cultivation is a great activity to do with the whole family, whether you'd like to grow indoors or outdoors. If you're new to mushrooms, we recommend starting with a Spray & Grow Kit or a Plant & Grow Kit – both make it easy to grow fresh, organic mushrooms at home.

We are vertically integrated — from culture work all the way to spawn and substrate production — ensuring a quality end product. And our staff mycologists keep up to date on all best practices in our field. Additionally, we have a dedicated QAQC team that tests every batch of grain and substrate before it’s inoculated.

Cluster of brown-capped mushrooms with long, light-colored stems against a white background.

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Whether you’re growing mushrooms at home, in your garden, or at a commercial scale, we offer everything you need to cultivate success. We start with the highest-quality OMRI-listed ingredients, mix them in our state-of-the-art facility, and inoculate them in our custom-built lab, so you can rest easy knowing your product will yield the best results.

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