Found this all over my local trail in Hawaii. Looks like turkey tail but not white on the edges and not a lot of color separation. Also, Ive never id’ a mushroom.
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I'm not going to make an uneducated guess, but I will say when identifing mushrooms it's useful to get an overall shot (like you've provided), but also a closer shot of the mushrooms and a shot of the underside of the mushroom (where the gills/pores are) as a lot of the key idenfying/differentiating features aren't super obvious from a distance
Edit: tbh I think you've got two distinct mushrooms in the photo; the more red and pale bracket fungus and the more brown and uniform fungus closest to the camera
Edit2: were the mushrooms on stems or were the visible parts in the photo connected directly to the wood?
This is mostly just a guess/semi informed attempt at an ID, but I think the dark red/white ones are Earliella scabrosa and the brown one may be in the Genus Microporos or possibly Lentinus brumalis (pictures range from rather similar to quite different, so I'm nowhere near 100% sure)
I think the photo of the gills would likely be the Earliella
Thanks for the help! I checked put the links. I didn’t know about that site. I signed up and will attempt an id next time using mushroom observer!
Sorry if I came off as short/rude at all! Obviously if you have any more mushroom photos/want help trying to identify them or have already identified them then please still post the photos on this community; it's rather fun trying to work out what they are and Hawaii has some interesting mushrooms by the looks of it!
Definitely were not rude. You were helpful and I got to learn more about how to go about identifying a species of mushroom. Thanks