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Q: We have a blue cypress tree that's been looking bad since the cold winter 2 years ago. It has a lot of brown areas in it and doesn't seem to be getting any better.

As it turned out, Little wrote his dissertation on the 31 species of the genus cupressus — the cypress tree. I emailed him reproductions of four well-known van Gogh paintings, and we spoke by phone.