No one knows what these balls in the bark are
Speaking of not judging a book by its cover and making sure we know what we are dealing with before proceeding ─ take a look at this picture: a bunch of balls has come to grow, spreading through the trunk of a tree. In plain sight, they look like alarmingly big cranberries.
However, they could also be tiny eggplants. Nonetheless, neither giant cranberries nor little eggplants are found in nature growing in this particular way on a tree’s bark. The most valuable probability is that these balls aren’t even edible. They could be eggs, a plague, or a fungi colony. Tryphopobics, refrain!