Very Similar, Wouldn't You Agree?!

The resemblance is uncanny!!

The pic on the left is a Red Cedar-Apple Rust fungus that's affecting one of our Cedar trees. The pic on the right is Davy Jones from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.

Whether Davy Jones was created after a fungus we may never know, however, I suppose inspiration comes from all sorts of places...

Cedar Fungi

Mowing the lawn today I noticed something unusual and something I've never seen before growing on one of our Red Cedar trees.  Well, I stopped the mower, grabbed my phone and snapped a handful of pictures.  The weirdest...

In researching I came across this interesting article from Mass Audubon that explains what these interesting orange globes are - 

"What's Growing on That Red Cedar"