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Massive failure

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tree with major defect

Here is a tree that had a major defect - included bark in the union of two major trunks. One of the trunks split from the tree leaving a major hole in this once beautiful tree. Fortunately for this major US botanical garden no people or structures were nearby when the trunk fell.