Wild chanterelle mushrooms are strongly discouraged; many wild mushrooms look like edible varieties but are toxic. Chicken leg mushrooms belong to the genus Ghost Umbrella, and there are several species in the same genus that are toxic. Chicken leg mushrooms themselves are toxic, it's just that the ones we eat are young and haven't started producing toxins or trace amounts yet.

Mushroom family, genus Goblin. The substrate is large. The cap is cylindrical, the surface of the cap is brown to light brown, and breaks into larger scales as the cap grows. The flesh is white. The stipe is white and smooth.

The Hairy Ghost Umbrella is the true name of the Chicken Leg Mushroom. If the common name Chicken Leg Mushroom is cute and adorable, and sounds particularly delicious, then the scientific name Hairy Ghost Umbrella is a bit hideous, and it feels poisonous. Where's the hair, you may wonder? The hairy ghost umbrellas at the market are clearly naked!

That's right, only in the wild can you see its "hairy" form. This is because the cap, commonly known as the cap of the mushroom, when it expands to a certain stage, the surface will break, and there will be a lot of broken stubble, which looks very rough, like a lot of scales or feathers.

This form of hairy-headed ghost umbrella, you should have seen it in the wild, right? Hairy ghost umbrella is a very common mushroom, not picky about the environment, mycelium vitality, so not only the wild more, but also a mainstream mushroom in the market. In the wild, you may have seen another form of Hairy Ghost Umbrella - when mature, it loses the shape of a chicken leg, and like most mushrooms, the cap opens completely.

Within 40 minutes of becoming completely umbrella-shaped, the edges of the cap begin to dissolve, producing an inky black liquid and a foul odor. Doesn't it change from a white rabbit to a witch in a second? The blackening of the hairy ghost umbrella is completed both visually and intrinsically - it's now completely poisonous and inedible.

When you look at these pictures carefully, you will notice a phenomenon: the wild hairy head ghost umbrella mushroom cap is fat, the stalk is long and thin, and the one that looks like a chicken's leg is the mushroom cap. The vegetable market sells cultivated hairy head ghost umbrellas, the opposite of their wild relatives, their caps are usually small, the stalks are fat, and the ones that look like chicken legs are the stalks.

Cultivated hairy head ghost umbrella form, is the result of artificial selection and breeding, because the hairy head ghost umbrella is difficult to preserve after opening, so you need to hurry in its tender time to pick, transportation. So people cultivated the variety with a very small umbrella cover and a fat umbrella stalk, which can be eaten when it is very young and tender.

The Hairy Ghost Umbrella is not poisonous only after it is blackened, but actually when it is young and tender. Many mushrooms in the genus Goblin have a toxin called onychomycetin, and while the toxin is not present in the young Hairy Goblin, and there is no reaction to eating it, the consequences can be severe when combined with alcohol.

If you drink alcohol when you eat a Hairy Goblin, or within a few hours of eating it, the onychomycetin can cause acetaldehyde to build up in the body, giving you a drunken reaction.

This reaction, which is common in people who take cephalosporin-based cold medicines and drink alcohol, is called a disulfiram-like reaction. If you don't drink much, it's not a big problem and can heal itself after you stop drinking, but if you drink a lot of alcohol and take a lot of hairy cephalosporin umbrellas, it can kill you.

So, eat the chicken leg mushrooms do not drink, not to stir-fry a plate to bring down the wine ...... This folk taboo is not pseudo-science, is a guideline for everyone to comply with.