This looks a lot like crown gall to me, but other opinions would be appreciated. Tree seems fine otherwise, just planted earlier this year.
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Could be CG but maybe a mushroom? If it’s hard and persists then CG is a possibility.
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Definitely not a mushroom, it is rock hard and growing off of the root.
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Never identified them but they often occur without any obvious damage to fruit trees. I tend to cut them out, but don’t always bother because they’ve never become a serious issue.
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I looked again and got my depth perception better aligned. Yes that’s CG.
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Do you have any experience with it? Should I cut it out and cauterize it?
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About 25 years ago when I started seeing it on some bare root trees coming from nurseries I assumed it was crown gall, but I didn’t want to kill the trees so I waited to see what the trees would do. Didn’t seem to phase them, so now I cut it out when I see it but know that there must be plenty of galls underground that I don’t see that can’t be doing a lot of harm. I expected CG to be fatal, so either most root galls of my experience are not CG of CG isn’t a big deal here even when it occurs.
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