Pinusan mushroom (Suillus pinusan)

Pinusan mushroom (Suillus pinusan) is a species of fungi in Suillaceae, grows on the surface of the soil beneath the merkus pine (Pinus merkusii), a yellowish-white cap with a light brown plot, slimy, glandular points on the trunk, large pore openings that are often arranged radially and yellowish white stem with brown plots.

S. pinusan has a cylindrical, cap, soft flesh and tubular hymenal type. The cuticle of the cap is yellowish white with dark spots, is slightly slimy and sticky. Porous hymenium. Cylindrical stem, yellowish white with brown spots.

Pinusan mushroom grows in a shady, humid place, under the merkus pine (Pinus merkusii) trees at an altitude of 700 meters. Appears spontaneously after the first rains in the rainy season and gradually disappears in the dry season.

It grows in groups where each group contains several caps on top of each other, groups close together in formations or sometimes solitary not far from the main group.

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Subphylum: Agaricomycotina
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
Order: Boletales
Family: Suillaceae
Genus: Suillus
Species: Suillus pinusan

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