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Hello, nice to meet you all. My name is Alice :)

My roommate just found this tree outside next to the garbage containers and brought it up to see if we could save it, as it does not look completely dead yet. It has spent at least half an hour out in the sub-zero temperature :(

It's braided, with three branches total making up the braid. One of them is green and smooth, but the others are white-ish and look shrivelled. Only three of the five leaved branches are intact (they do branch out further though) and a couple of leaves on one of the branches are starting to curl up, but not quite wilting yet.

My roommate cut off some small wilting branches growing off the trunks at an approx. 45 degree angle. Here are a couple of pictures taken with my mediocre camera that has no flash:
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Here you cab sort of see the one smooth trunk and the other two.
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Here's a pic of the whole tree.

We gave it enough water to make the soil moist but not wet. If you have any advice to help us get this little guy back on his feet (roots?), they'd be greatly appreciated.

P.S. We're in Denmark so it's quite snowy and cold outside but the sun seems to be shining a bit more lately, and the snow certainly makes it a lot brighter outside, so light doesn't seem like it will be a problem so far. I asked my roommate to keep the tree near the window whenever the sun isn't too bright.

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Ah, apologies - Imageshack has changed a bit since the last time I used it. :)

Let's see if this works:

Here's the close-up of the bark (notice the one in the middle which is still green, if not very smooth):


And here's the whole tree:

Ok the photo did work , but small.

On my machine I cant enlarge it..

I will see if someone else can make it large.
Your half way there.