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Yes! The other comments are incorrect. This is a condition known as reversion. These trees are actually a mutation of a typical conifer, known aptly as a “dwarf conifer”. Mutations are oftentimes unstable, and can revert back to their original form - that’s what has happened to this tree. One of the branches (or multiple, potentially) have reverted and it’s actually growing a normal-size conifer on those branches now. Kinda neat! But can also be very bad for the tree.
More info can be found here: https://bygl.osu.edu/node/1602
Similar things can happen with variegation in leaves (reversion, that is).
If Google had a baby she would
drop it on its headspike it at the ground