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betsy_VA wrote:
Hi flowAjen -- thanks for the reply. I've appended a photo of the tree bark -- welcome your ID!

I asked my mom (master gardener in training) and she checked with her local extension folks and they seem to think it's Taphrina spp., a fungus. Unsightly but not life-threatening.

What do you think?