third photo shows P. maculosa (left) and P. pensylvanica (right)
all the leaves are dead so I can’t confirm, but I think it’s this?
White spruce in Bay of Fundy Coastal forest is heavily infected with Eastern Dwarf Mistletoe. Many dying trees covered with abnormal “witches broom” growth. Near Point Prim Lighthouse at the end of Lighthouse Road, Digby.
On balsam fir branches
On yellow birch
On “dead” hemlock
On “dead” topless hemlock stump