This is a white rot fungus,
Irpex lacteus, a common wood-rotting fungus that is found throughout temperate regions. I found this one on the underside of a small twig lying on the ground in moist woods - it has one smooth side and one that is toothed, or pitted-looking. The brown criss-cross lines in the bottom right corner are pine needles (to give an idea of scale).
This is not something destroying your tree or shrub, it is cleaning up and recycling things that have already died, so there's no need to try and remove it.
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