While half of one appears dead and bare of leaves, the other has an almost full canopy. Despite the disparity, both are what are sometimes called “zombie trees” — healthy looking on the outside, dead ...

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A: The news is really not good. I am so sorry, but the top is almost assuredly going to die away. The tissue just inside the bark is called the phloem, and it’s a cylinder that conducts manufactured ...