Crab leg mushrooms are a genus of fungi from the family Pleurotus. The scientific name of the zebu mushrooms, native to the cold temperate beech and other broad-leaved forest areas, mostly occurring in the fall, is a kind of wood-rotting fungi; distributed in the northern hemisphere temperate areas, including North America, Europe, Siberia, Japan, China and other places. It is rich in nutrients and has high medicinal value.

Crab leg mushrooms are fungi of the genus Amanita. The scientific name of the zebu mushrooms, native to the cold temperate beech and other broad-leaved forest areas, occurring in the fall, is a wood-rotting fungi; distributed in the northern hemisphere temperate regions, including North America, Europe, Siberia, Japan, China and other places. The nutrients contained are rich and have high medicinal value.