Please help ID mushrooms in MR log

Hello,
I planted shiitake plugs in some oak tree logs a year ago and now there are a few different mushrooms growing. I'm guessing there's some other fungus in my logs. Do you think I should just trash them to be safe? Can you identify any of the mushrooms?

The first four pics are of the same log, different views and the last two are of another log that the mushrooms are all the same.

Sorry the pictures aren't the best quality; I took them with my phone.

Thanks for your help!
Annette

Hi,
Quality could be OK, but to identify a mushroom you need at the very least a view of the lower side plus to these views. Is the lower side of the grayish-whitish ones formed of pores, like a fine sponge? Or is it in folds/gills, or maybe maze-like? They could be:
Thick maze polypore;
Thin maze polypore;
Young specimens of green moss polypore;
Or maaaaybe discolored turkey tail - I'm guessing not.
The orange ones look like Picnoporus cinnabarinus to me.
The bigger whitish one in the 2nd picture could be a Daedalea if the lower side matches.
The ones with stems in the 3rd picture could be Polyporus squamosus if the lower side matches. Or decaying Armillaria mellea - honey mushroom, I think not though. Or are they your shiitake? I have never seen it growing, that might be it! The blackened ones behind them could be last year turkey tails.
The brown ones in the last picture if they really have no stems (?) could be Ganoderma applanatum, but her lower side is very distinctive and there is a lot of flattish brown brackets similar to her.
Generally speaking, you can't identify mushrooms from pictures. I am not bad with local ones in real life. Of course normally when you think you have the id it turns out that for a positive one you need to measure the spores or something...

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