The Hairy Ghost Umbrella (also known as Chicken Leg Mushroom) is a wild edible mushroom that occurs in the late spring, summer and fall rains in the north of China. It is delicious, nutritious and has unique health care effects. It is an emerging species after shiitake, mushroom, straw mushroom, flat mushroom, enoki mushroom, etc. It integrates nutrition, health care and therapeutic properties. With the improvement of people's living standard, its nutritional and health care value will be more and more valued by the public, and it has great potential for development. It grows in fields, forest edges, roadsides and parks from spring to fall, and it even grows on hairy roofs in the rainy season. The fungus sometimes grows on the pile of cultivated straw mushrooms, competing with them for nutrients and even inhibiting the growth of their mycelium.

Wild conditions, generally in late spring and summer and fall after the rain was born in the fields, meadows, under the trees, orchards in the humus of fertile soil, the growth of the substrate is mostly for the rotting crop straw, weeds, leaves, animal manure and so on, is a kind of native grass-rotting bacteria. It is a kind of native grass-rotting fungus. It grows singly and rarely in clumps. Chicken leg mushrooms set nutrition, health care, therapeutic in one, with high protein, low fat characteristics. And has been identified by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a collection of "natural, nutrition, health care" as one of the 16 kinds of rare edible fungi, is in recent years the artificial development of one of the rare edible fungi with commercial potential. Hairy ghost umbrella is a kind of edible fungus distributed worldwide, mainly produced in the northern provinces in China. Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan and other provinces (regions) are reported.