Midrash for Avodah Zarah 95:12

איבעית אימא רבנן גידעו ופיסלו איצטריכא ליה ס"ד אמינא כיון דעבד ליה מעשה בגופיה עיקר אילן נמי ליתסר קמשמע לן:

I can also say that it agrees with the rabbis, and it needed to mention that he chopped or trimmed it lest I would have thought that since he did something to the body of the tree even the trunk is prohibited, therefore it comes to teach us that it is not.

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