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I had a mostly dead limb on my apple tree I intended to cut off. I noticed this on it. I think it grew there pretty fast and it spreading to where the bark was damaged. Is this thing screwed. Any treatment options once I get the dead limb off. I think the initial damage was from a chimnea accident a few years back.

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Could be turkey tail fungus. If so, it colonizes mostly deadwood and serves to decompose the lignin in the wood. No treatment, other than pruning, is necessary.
 
It shouldn't, as these are decomposers of deadwood, not live sapwood.
 
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