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Evergreen Needle Loss (IL)

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From: maureen maloney City: chicago, IL
I've, what I think is a spruce. It's large and old and has lost all it's interior needles in the past couple of years. Way too many needles for it to be regular shedding. The new green ones pop off with little finger pressure. The upper 10' of it is covered in pine cones. Is it dying?
	Extension Message From: Jay Hayek Extension Specialist, Forestry Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences jhayek@illinois.edu
Greetings Maureen: My suggestion to you is to contact a local, certified arborist for an on-site assessment of this tree. Furthermore, you can submit samples of the affected tree to Morton Arboretum's Plant Clinic: http://www.mortonarb.org/main.taf?p=3,5
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