Attack Of The Many Tentacled Carrot Creature

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With the spring rain comes the time for the Juniper to flower. From a distance it looks as if the blooms are large and orange. Yet wait a minute. Doesn't the juniper produce cones and nuts?
On closer inspection, unease turns to horror. Large, alien looking, carroty gelatinous tentacles seem to have sprung up all over the tree. This is no precursor of alien invasion, however.
This is cedar apple rust. It is in fact a fungus.
(thanks Robert-John)The Presurfer