Allow me to geek out a bit - a bolete mushroom growing out the side of a dead tree, twenty inches up.
You normally find boletes on the forest floor. They form symbiotic relationships with trees through an intricate underground network.
At first I thought someone found the mushroom and wedged it into the trunk. Cuz you know, all those mushroom jokesters pranking Dan! 😂
Probably:
Reddish Brown Bitter Bolete
[Tylopilus rubrobrunneus]
