Lycopodium Powder, Swinging Torch or Short Cane

Lycopodium Powder

The best quality Lycopodium powder for the best price is available now at Renegade.

Lycopodium is a yellow-tan dust like powder historically used as a flash powder. It is composed of the dry spores of clubmoss plants. When mixed with air, the spores are highly flammable because of their high fat content and their large surface area per unit of volume - a single spore's diameter is about 33 micrometers. Preferred sources are Lycopodium clavatum (wolf's-foot clubmoss) and Diphasiastrum digitatum (common ground cedar)

Lycopodium has been used in fireworks and explosives, fingerprint powders, as well as a covering for pills, and as a ice cream stabilizer. Today, the principal use of the powder is to create flashes or flames that are large and impressive but relatively easy to manage safely in magic acts, for cinema and theatrical special effects. The powder is also highly hydrophobic; if the surface of a cup of water is coated with lycopodium powder, you can put your finger into the cup and it will come out dusted with the powder but remain perfectly dry. An interesting fact of of the material.

In order to produce a flame the powder needs to be dispersed in the air and then ignited. We sell both a hollow swinging torch or short cane

• The swinging torch or short cane, you put the powder is inside of the tubing which has a burning end, as you swing the prop, the powder come out of the tube and is ignited by the burning end and produces a huge flame.

The short cane is 32 3/4 inches long, made with a black thin wall anodized 7074 aluminum tube, 19mm in diameter. The knob is a Henrys crepe rubber round knob. The swinging torch is the same constuction just shorter, 21 3/4 inches long. Both have 100% Kevlar wicks 18" x 1/8"