Bark discolored reddish and cankered by sunburn. Cytospora canker, Cytospora leucostoma, is developing at the sunburned site as evidenced by its pimplike fruit bodies (pycnidia).

The sunburned area on the bark of a prune branch where the fungus Cytospora leucostoma invades to cause Cytospora canker.  White dots on bark are the pycnidia of the pathogen; Sutter Co.  Credit: Jack Kelly Clark
Credit: Jack Kelly Clark