Apricot jam..?

[PonderingSage:]

I found this while doing deadwood work on my sand cherry.
I looks like apricot jam…anyone know what this is?

 

[PonderingSage:]

Sorry can’t up load a photo I’ll try later

 

[sorce]

Rust.

Sorce

 

[Lutonian]

cant say with out a photo could be gummosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummosis or a few other things

 

[PonderingSage:]

Here are some photos. Thanks

 

[TN_Jim]

is edible

 

[PonderingSage:]

Haha…l didn’t try it.

 

[rockm]

You sure this is a sand cherry and not a black cherry (prunus serotina)? Black cherry can produce massive eruptions of jelly-like sap at wound points. The thinking is that all that jelly crap overwhelms boring insects/beetles, etc. I had an old collected black cherry for years. It often produced alarming piles of stuff that looked alot like this from cracks in its bark and other places, particularly after a good rain.

 

[HorseloverFat]

You sure this is a sand cherry and not a black cherry (prunus serotina)? Black cherry can produce massive eruptions of jelly-like sap at wound points. The thinking is that all that jelly crap overwhelms boring insects/beetles, etc. I had an old collected black cherry for years. It often produced alarming piles of stuff that looked alot like this from cracks in its bark and other places, particularly after a good rain.

I have seen MANY Black Cherry Trees in the wild ALSO participate in this action.

 

[PonderingSage:]

Thanks, I dug this up from the landscape answering a craigslist ad so I’m not quite sure he said it was a red sand cherry.

 

[PonderingSage:]

 

[penumbra]

It is often in response to borers. At least that is true in the landscape with flowering cherries. I have seen it quite often on Kwanzan Cherries but on others as well.

 

[PonderingSage:]

Thanks everyone. Whatever it was had a field day on this, only two of the sub trunks are still living. I’ll poke back in that spot and see if l can find a borer.

 

[penumbra]

BTW, your title got my attention. Apricot preserves are my very favorite. Opening a new jar in the morning.

 

[Shogun610]

BTW, your title got my attention. Apricot preserves are my very favorite. Opening a new jar in the morning.

No way it’s Dalmatia Fig spread that’s the best