White Pikmin

The White Pikmin is a subterranean species of Pikmin, discovered during the secondary visit by Captain Olimar onto PNF-404. Like Purple Pikmin, White Pikmin are produced through Candypop Buds as they don't have an Onion.

Description
Considered the polar opposite of the Purple Pikmin, White Pikmin are the smallest species known, and also considered the fastest. They're pure white in color, with very large prominent eyes to see the underground caves. This gives the species a albino-like appearance.

Being so light and fast, White Pikmin are also the only known poisonous species of Pikmin known. While they don't have a mouth to speak of, or an opening like Puffmin or Blue Pikmin, they are still capable of shooting out this purple-hued poison. This poison is also corrosive, strong enough to eat through metal in a matter of seconds. It also takes just as much time for a predator to die (or become unconscious in some cases) after eating a White Pikmin. This also makes them immune to other natural poisons, able to survive where most plant life can't.

As Pikmin ancestors, the Sutera cordata, aren't poisonous by nature, it is theorized that White Pikmin are actually evolved descendants of Puffmin, namely those that survive the Puffstool's toxic spores and being carriers, using the spores as a factor into their poison.