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Forests in Silciems

1 – 1.5 km range around the Silciems railway station is among the most popular place to go for mushroom picking in the Greater Riga area.

Here you might find edible mushrooms popular in Latvia – various species of chanterelles, russulas, king boletes and other boletes, woolly milkcaps, orange milkcaps, gypsy mushrooms, etc. Most interesting is the chestnut bolete lurid bolete, edible polypore – sheep polypore (edible mushroom popular in Scandinavia) and the coral mushroom.

 



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