The larger bifurcation value is . For the origin is stable and an unstable periodic orbit of radius
surrounds it. That orbit collapses into the origin as , after which the origin is unstable. This is a subcritical Hopf bifurcation.
After a positive rescaling of radius, its local normal form is
or equivalently
The full quintic radial Hopf equation also has the stable outer branch
In the bifurcation diagram, the branch is stable for and unstable for . The unstable branch runs from backwards to
where it folds into the stable branch; the latter continues to larger .