In summer and fall, it grows singly or in groups on mountains, grassy slopes, fields, or along forests, and its pseudo-roots are connected to underground black-winged earth termite nests. It is only available in August and September each year. In Yongzhou, Hunan, 15 days before and after the Dragon Boat Festival each year is the high incidence period, and a large number of wild chicken? Fungus born, mainly grow in the red soil hills and park mountain area, in addition to the Dragon Boat Festival period, other times do not grow.

Chicken? (zōng) mushroom, also known as umbrella handle mushroom (Yunnan, Sichuan), chicken mushrooms (Taiwan, Fujian), fighting chicken mushrooms, termite mushroom, termite umbrella, yellow chicken. ? (Fujian, Guangdong). Substrate medium to large. Cap 3-23.5 cm wide, conical to bell-shaped and gradually extended when young, conspicuously raised at the top in the form of a cockle hat, grayish brown or brown to light earthy yellow, radially dehiscent when old, sometimes with the edges turned up. Flesh white, thick. Folds white to creamy white, yellowish when old, curved or nearly free, dense, narrow, unequal, with undulate margins. The stipe is stout, 3-15cm long, 0.7-2.4cm thick, white or the same color as the cap, solid inside, the base is expanded with a brown to black-brown elongated pseudoroot, up to 40cm long.

Chicken? Fungus "?" should be written as ? or "earth from". Because now 99 percent of the people input method can not hit the "?" because 99% of people nowadays can't type "?" in their input method, so we usually have to write it as "土从". All other words are misspellings.

Distributed in China Jiangsu, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Zhejiang, Hunan Yongzhou (15 days before and after the Dragon Boat Festival each year for the high incidence of a large number of wild chicken longitudinal fungi born, mainly in the red soil hills and parks in mountainous areas, in addition to the period of the Dragon Boat Festival, the other time does not grow) and other areas.

Chicken? Tender flesh, strong aroma, taste delicious, our people foraging the fungus has a long history, is one of the famous wild edible mushrooms, selling well in domestic and international markets, the masses according to the color and morphology of the fungus and other characteristics, divided into black skin, white skin, yellow skin, flower skin, and many other types, but whether the same belongs to a species needs to be further studied. The flavor of the black skin (green skin) is the best. According to Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", the fungus has "beneficial to the stomach, clear the mind, hemorrhoids" and other medicinal effects.