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What is growing on this shrub

LoopzLoopz Posts: 22
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Can anyone please help tell me what this is.

It is attached to a slow growing conifer type shrub (sorry I don't know what type).

The shrub has been there since I moved here and grows under a canopy of larger shrub/trees, many have outgrown their space so it all looks a little cluttered and I have noticed that shrub has very little growth which I had put down to lack of light, but it's an area I haven't got around to dealing with.imageimageimageimage

It looks like some sort of nest and there look to be whit aphids attached to it. Cannot see it anywhere else in the garden but pretty sure it wasn't there at the weekend.

Thank you for any advice image

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698

    Ewww! Looks like some kind of fungus. Not sure about your 'aphids', maybe gnats or little flies feeding on it? 

    I feel sick now. Mushroom risotto definitely off the menu tonight.

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Hortum-cretaeHortum-cretae Posts: 979

    Is it on a dead branch? Looks like a type of fungus. What's it feel like?

    H-C

  • Hortum-cretaeHortum-cretae Posts: 979

    Look up gymnosporangium clavariforme.   Tongues of fire. 

    H-C

  • LoopzLoopz Posts: 22

    Wow thank you,

    WillDB, You make me feel like the spotty kid in the playground image with my growing fungus. Hope you get your appetite back soon.

    Thank you H-C looks like you've nailed it. The branch isn't exactly dead but not thriving. The nodes feel soft but slightly rubbery, we had a massive downpour last night which seems to have brought it to life.

    I do have a hawthorn which I will have to keep an eye on.

    Currently researching but cannot find advice on what / if I should do anything, but it seems to appeal to fungus experts image

    Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction any more advice gratefully received.

  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995

    It looks like an arborvitae tree, if that helps your research.  I'd be tempted to just cut off the branch and put it into the garbage can (rather than the compost), and not worry too much about it.  If it was a deadly serious problem, then there would be more on the internet.  image  At least, that is my philosophy in most things gardening or health related.  

    Utah, USA.
  • Hortum-cretaeHortum-cretae Posts: 979

    The conifer it's on is a juniper, probably one of the juniperus x media types.

    H-C

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