雞腿蘑菇，又名毛頭鬼傘，是我國北方春末、夏秋雨后發出的一種野生食用。其味道鮮美，營養豐富。雞腿蘑菇屬中高溫型菇類，為草腐土生菌。菌絲生長溫度范圍10-350C，最適20-300C；子實體發育溫度8-300C，最適16-220C。
       
    雞腿蘑菇，味道鮮美，個大肉厚，含蛋白質等，營養極其豐富。雞腿蘑菇，生活適應能力很強，我省東北部黃河故道的大平原的林間、水溝邊、農田的沙質土壤上、各種果樹下、田埂邊，保水性能良好的肥沃土壤中，均適合于雞腿蘑菇生長。
       
    雞腿蘑菇味道鮮美，色、香、味俱佳，可與香菇媲美。但極易感染氣味，極易吸收水分受潮而發霉變質，因此需快收、快調，做好儲藏保管工作，適宜存放于干燥通風處，并注意與異味之物隔離，以保證其質量。
       
    雞腿蘑菇仔國內外市場均受歡迎，具有發展前途的新商品。


    
    Coprinus Comatus, also called Shaggy Cap, is a wild edible fungus producing in the north of China, deliciously and nutritiously. This mushroom belongs to moderate-high temperature kind and fungus growing in rot grasslands. This mushroom has strong adaptability: it can grow well in kind of soils as long as the soil is fertile and can sustain water well.
     
    Coprinus Comatus has good color, flavor and smell, which endow it an equal position with shiitake. However, this kind of mushroom is easy to be inflected with other smells and get rotten so that we must pick them quickly and store them in very good conditions such as dried and ventilated places. Coprinus Comatus is well welcomed in internal as well as external markets and is a new and promising goods.