Cutter victim. Its wide-open sky is a gritty street.

See it struggle to try to keep on sprouting leaves from whichever places it can, from those remaining spots where I guess it’s still got a few leftover functioning glands or whatever. Or are those little brown things some kind of parasitic plant taking over.

In Huntington, West Virginia, on January 2nd, 2011, along the south side of 4th Avenue between 2nd Street and 3rd Street.

Library of Congress classification ideas:
SD407 Pruning—Pictorial works.
SB436 Trees in cities—West Virginia—Huntington—Pictorial works.

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