Various mushrooms that I found in the forest nearby

When I go to the forest, I always walk with my radio on. Because I saw a signboard telling “Bears haunt, Dangerous”, but it is said that bears would avoid us if they hear our chatting voices. So, I think the radio broadcasting can work as our voices and it can keep bears away while walking. Although I have not encountered wild bears yet, I have met wild monkeys many times. I once experienced a big wild deer get across in front of my car in the forest road.

Anyway, today I went to the forest as usual. Thankfully it seems like we're having a mild winter this year, but if this warm weather will last and there is no snow, it will cause water shortages in the spring and affect the agriculture, in particular, rice paddy field, I suppose.

I found small yellow mushrooms sticking together on the dead tree branch. At a glance, I thought these were yellow fairy cups also known as a lemon disco, in scientific name called Bisporella citrina belonging to Ascomycetes.

But when looking at this close-up photo, these mushrooms are not flat and also wrinkled, gelatinous, have a feeling of transparency. If these are yellow fairy cups, I feel something wrong with them. Then I may be mistaken, but these might be some kinds of wood ear mushroom, such as Dacrymyces variisporus belonging to Basidiomycetes.

A red mushroom that looks like something red sheet rolled up was popping out from between the fallen dead leaves.

I think it’s a scarlet elf cup, in scientific name, Sarcoscypha coccinea.  These mushrooms have occurred at around the same location last year. Usually these mushroom occurred on the dead tree branch, but the dead branch was not seen, simply because the branch was hidden in the fallen leaves.

These are the densely growing moss on a damp rotten log. If you check the shape of the leaves, different species are mixed together.

This mushroom occurred on a dead branch that I happened to notice alongside the forest road.  I suppose it might be a kind of the genus of Steccherinum, according to Google Lens.

To zoom in, you can see a lot of projecting needle-like tissues, in technical term, a spine. There are various shapes inside the mushroom belonging to Basidiomycetes. Such as lamella, tube and spine.

This is a kind of lichen I found on a mossy damp log. This lichen is the type that stands up from the substrate like a green shoot. To be exact in this case, it's actually growing downwards. 

This is a shed shell of a cicada emerged last year, although it is quite decayed. I think it's the shed shell of a small cicada, Platypleura kaempferi.