Darren Garrison expounded:

Found it growing on a cedar tree. Is it some sort of insect egg case? Or a parasitic plant? Or an
advance scout for an alien invasion force?

I could get better pictures of it with my digital camera tommorrow, if necessary (these were from my
flatbed scanner).

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/wthmohit1.jpg
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/wthmohit2.jpg
http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/wthmohit3.jpg

Those are cedar apple rust fruits, it's a fungus that forms on cedars.
Very strange little things, aren't they??!?
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Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
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