More than 4,000 species of mushrooms have been identified in Latvia, some 300 of which are edible. Mushroom pickers usually recognize and pick only a few dozen of the edible mushrooms. The basic rule of mushrooming is to collect and use for food only those mushrooms that you know well and are not in doubt about! The most poisonous mushroom in Latvia is the death cap (Amanita phalloides), and the destroying angel (Amanita virosa) is very dangerous. 62 mushroom species are protected in Latvia. In summer and autumn, the great complement to food supplies and a source of vitamins are wild berries: wild strawberries, wild raspberries, blueberries, bog bilberries, blackberries, lingonberries and guelder roses, and in the bogs – cloudberries and cranberries.