I went for a walk a few days ago, pretty deep into the coastal forest about 12 kilometers from where I live, in search for interesting springtime details ... that include flowers, spiders and insects ... mostly ... and I have found some ... but ...
... quite unexpectedly - I found some fungi as well ...
... among them was also this thing that I never saw before ... it's hard as wood, and it has some very large pores on its vivid brown, almost orange lower surface ...
... the upper side is completely black ...
... it looks like coated with tar.
Nearby, on fallen twigs ...
... I found a few small patches of some crust fungi ...
... maybe Stereum hirsutum, but I'm not sure ... and then ...
... on another tree, I found another one of those mysterious fungi that started the post ...
... this one was a bit larger.
On the ground, in the same area ...
... I found this small, fragile umbrella. Maybe some Entoloma species ...
... it's a pretty generic looking little mushroom, I encounter quite a few similar looking species in autumn.
In another area, several hundreds meters from there, I found some interesting markings on the bark of the tree ...
... when I came closer and took a better look ...
... I realized that I just found another kind of mushrooms ...
... these were desiccated and leathery ...
... they surely look pretty different when fresh.
Some meters from there, under another tree in that area, I found a fallen branch with some more of those mysterious fungi from the opening shots of the post ... these were less vividly colored on the lower side ...
... here I could get closer with the camera ...
... and take a few macro shots ... on this photograph you can (barely!) see a well camouflaged spider on the pores of the fungi.
Here I put the branch in the vertical position to get a better view of the fungi.
This colorful Ganoderma was the last fungus that I found on that day.
As always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work.