There's a big mushroom growing out of my tree
A hard, woody, hoof-shaped or plate-shaped growth pushing straight out of the bark — often white or cream underneath, brown, gray, or banded on top. Sometimes a single shelf, sometimes a stack. Common spots are the base, an old wound, a branch stub, or the flat face where a limb was cut years ago. Some kinds are soft, orange or yellow, and grow in overlapping clusters. Some return to the same spot every year; others rot away over winter and come back.
Within weeks
The shelf is a fruiting body — the reproductive structure. The organism has been living inside the wood digesting it long before anything appeared on the outside. So the shelf is not the problem, it is the announcement. The practical translation is that there is a volume of decayed wood inside the trunk or the root collar, and the real job is establishing how much sound wood remains around it and whether that remaining shell is enough to hold the tree up.
What it usually costs
Normally a hazardous tree removal job: $800 to $5,000 around Indianapolis, depending on size and access. A range, not a quote.
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Other tree problems
- The bark is falling off my tree
- The top of my tree is dying
- There are carpenter ants in my tree trunk
- My tree splits into two trunks and it looks like it's coming apart where they meet
- They dug and graded and parked right next to my tree during the build, and now it looks bad
- The trunk is cracked / the tree split down the middleurgent
- I think this tree is dead
- Something stripped the bark off my young tree
- My tree is dropping leaves in July like it's already fall
- I think my ash tree has that beetle
- My tree stood in water after the yard flooded and now it looks sick
- A long vertical split opened up in my trunk over the winter
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree
- Half the tree is dead and the other half looks fine
- There's a big branch hanging in the treeurgent
- My tree is hollow inside