The googles have revealed nothing, so i thought i'd ask the hive.
What sayest thou?
The googles have revealed nothing, so i thought i'd ask the hive.
What sayest thou?
Fungus. No clue what type but it's a good indication your tree isn't very healthy.
Patina
Google Lens says it's a Sea Slug. Problem solved.
Only FOUR HOURS. We're amazing.
Oh, and just in case you hadn't noticed.
Don't eat it. It's definitely not a peach. 
The most likely scenario is that, unbeknownst to you, someone in your household (or possibly your neighbor) threw a portion of moldy calves liver out. It coincidentally struck the tree and stuck there.
If that is not the case, I like Curtis' answer. Sea slug. You do live near the coast?
Demon.
Don't piss it off.
I see a gremlin that ran out of talent and hit the tree at a high rate of speed.
If you're lucky, it's a pheasantback mushroom, but it doesn't look quite right.
Pheasantbacks are delicious. If it looks like this in a few days, harvest the parasol when it's the size of your hand, slice it thin, and batter/fry it in peanut oil.
after proper identification, of course.
Fungus feeding on dead portions of the tree, most likely due to terrible pruning. It's a structural issue but fruit trees are relatively short lived anyway. Plant another one and prune it correctly.
Bagel.
That looks like bark to me. Bark is the outermost layers trees.
Somebody fling a partially toasted marshmallow?
This guy's my prime suspect:
In reply to Trent :
Thank you
Peach tree borers infested the branch that was removed (borers causing the stain) followed by ganoderma in the dead trunk tissue? Where about the world is the tree? Would help narrow the playing field. There's a Ganoderma found naturally in Europe, Ganoderma lucidum that produces a basidiocarp that somewhat resembles the one in the pic. I'm colorblind so I have trouble identifying different varieties from pics. My guess would be that there must have been a very wet/humid spell just prior to the pic being taken. In any case, the tree is done, cut it down.
Most of us have some kind of "weird" hobby type thing we do others aren't interested in. One of mine is tree diseases (long time ornamental horticulture guy) and my current studies as well as short/long term experiments pertain to Ganoderma Zonatum which uses palm trees as the primary host. It's blamed for killing palms but in every case I've personally observed it's a secondary infection of a palm dying from other factors. Basidiocarp below shows the ringed "zones" it derived it's name from.
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Never has there been a thread that's made me as squeemish and reluctant to touch my phone screen as this one has (and i am absolutely not clicking the tree brain link
) . Thanks everyone!
The tree is in Hungary, and honestly the pruning of the trees in my yard has me scratching my head... there doesnt seem to be much rhyme or reason to it (not that i'm any sort of agricultural expert or anything).
So the tree's gotta come down. Ah well, it didnt produce much anyways. Anything i can do to keep the borers out of the other trees?
The tree brain link is harmless. A comedy blogger notices a strange fungus and reports on its disappearance, reappearance, theft and eventually eats it over the course of 3 or 4 years
Trent said:The tree brain link is harmless. A comedy blogger notices a strange fungus and reports on its disappearance, reappearance, theft and eventually eats it over the course of 3 or 4 years
I've been hurt before. Not sure if i'm ready to trust again quite yet.
Ya know, if you're artsy, I know a girl that takes those big half circle mushrooms, dries them a bit and draws very nice outdoor scenes on them. Trees, cougars, moose, gets a good buck for them too.
NOT A TA said:Peach tree borers infested the branch that was removed (borers causing the stain) followed by ganoderma in the dead trunk tissue? Where about the world is the tree? Would help narrow the playing field. There's a Ganoderma found naturally in Europe, Ganoderma lucidum that produces a basidiocarp that somewhat resembles the one in the pic. I'm colorblind so I have trouble identifying different varieties from pics. My guess would be that there must have been a very wet/humid spell just prior to the pic being taken. In any case, the tree is done, cut it down.
Most of us have some kind of "weird" hobby type thing we do others aren't interested in. One of mine is tree diseases (long time ornamental horticulture guy) and my current studies as well as short/long term experiments pertain to Ganoderma Zonatum which uses palm trees as the primary host. It's blamed for killing palms but in every case I've personally observed it's a secondary infection of a palm dying from other factors. Basidiocarp below shows the ringed "zones" it derived it's name from.
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Not a plant pathologist, but I second ganoderma.
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