Orange Slime

Don't ask, I have no idea what this is. While at the photo shoot at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Oakdale, NY, I noticed one tree / bush had these orange slime balls growing on some of it's branches. I would say about 20 of these balls. however, most were not formed like this, they were more drippy dangling slime cones. Very strange. Anyone have a clue what this is?

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