Pine fungus grows in the two seasons of spring and autumn.

September and October are the peak growing seasons, with more production and the taste is much better than that in March and April.

Pine fungi not only need to meet the general mushroom growth conditions, but also must grow together with pine trees and grow with pine tree roots.

Brown-red or dark-green pine fungus is the best among mushrooms.

Pine tree fungus is also known as pine hair fungus, rivet mushroom, and pine needle mushroom.

Classification status: Agaricalales, Agaricaceae.

People in Jiangxi call it Viongoella, which belongs to the genus Rivet; in Hunan and Hubei, people call it pine mushroom (tree mushroom) and yellow thread fungus (Xiaochang, Hubei). There are also many names for pine mushroom in various parts of China.

Pine fungus is a kind of mushroom that grows naturally at the foot of pine trees. It is yellow-brown with a small amount of blue-green and copper-purple.

Generally after the Double Ninth Festival every year, umbrella-shaped mushrooms grow out from under the pine trees. They are as big as shiitake mushrooms. They are pollution-free wild edible fungi. They are delicious, abundant in produce, and deeply loved by consumers.

The main cooking methods include stewing and stir-frying.

Nowadays, with the pollution of the environment, the number of wild pine fungi has decreased. For example, acid rain has changed the pH value of the soil (pine fungi like neutral or slightly alkaline), and the felling of a large number of pine trees is also the reason for the decrease.

Soil acidification will also cause bacterial species to mutate, and in recent years, bacterial umbrellas have become bleached.