The various rusty-brown patches on this live eucalypt are the fruit bodies of the fungus. It can be more extensive and denser than this. I didn’t take a close-up photo here but if you want to see what the fruit body looks like, you can see a close view of a different sighting here https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sightings/Details/3378860.
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