Hi
I reached out to some tree fruit experts at Penn State, here is what I got.
"I had to read a little further on the link, but he says the tree had no leaves last year and from the pictures the tree is dead. Stone fruits are pretty water hungry and with the drought in CA where these trees are and the chainsaw pruning of major limbs, the trees were stressed out and died. The black fungus is just secondary rot moving in. The cracking is because the tree is drying into firewood. Ran it by our plant path person down here, Kari Peter, and she said the same thing. Take care. David Biddinger, Penn State"
Now that I read this I looked more closely at the images and it could be that the tree is dead
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