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More pictures to come! Some of these are probably lichens. I'm new at this.

Striated guys

An image of flat, stemless fungi growing on a log on the forest floor. They are are pale with tan striations.
A closeup of the same kind of stemless fungi. It has delicate stripes of varying thickness and a rippled texture.

Orange guys

Bright tan-orange fungi roughly the size and texture of cornflakes growing on a damp log in a forest. They are edged in a lighter yellow color.
A closeup of the log reveals the same orange, cornflake-like fungi and a new fungal growth that resembles orange jelly or some kind of ruffly sea plant.

Old Guys

Mushrooms growing on a still-standing tree. Some have taken on the same greenish cast of the tree's bark, but most are a dusty brown color with a pale rim.

Chocolate Pancakes

A picture taken at night of a clump of chocolate-brown mushrooms the size of dinner plates growing at the base of a tree trunk and around its roots. It is not clear if they are growing on the roots or mulch, but no stems are visible and some grow directly from the tree trunk.

Unidentified Flying Pizza

A wedge-shaped mushroom with subtle stripes that is a yellow-ish orange color. Its texture resembles round, piped icing or a bouncy house, and the outer rim of the wedge is paler than the rest, resembling pizza crust.

I know very little about these beautiful creatures apart from the fact that mushrooms are flowering bodies, lichen are not the same thing as fungi (I think), and that you should not eat foraged mushrooms unless you are very, very confident in your mycology.

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