You can eat the fruits of the Lychee too, if I'm thinking of the some plant. They are white fruits, right? They are canned and you can get them in Asian grocery stores and sometimes regular stores. Those and Longons are on chinese buffets. I picked Longons and took them home when I was in Florida a few years ago. They are great fresh, but, don't keep well on a 19 hour drive back to Pa from Florida. I wanted my dad to taste them fresh, not just canned. We cut the bad parts off, I can see why they aren't in stores like fresh apricots and peaches etc. Lychees have a nice delicate flavor. I never had a fresh one, just canned too.

It is a blue spruce, Picea pungens var. glauca. The tree is much too large to move and is very unhealthy as well. Blue spruces (aka Colorado spruces) are prone to a number of very disfiguring diseases if grown outside of a very narrow range of appropriate climate conditions and almost inevitably develop a needlecast that will leave lower branches virtually bare except for a tuft of new growth on the ends. And even that in its second year will begin to develop the affliction and will brown and gradually drop off. Ivy probably didn't help either :-) Virtually nowhere on the east coast offers the growing conditions this tree prefers. I would think seriously about removing it altogether and selecting a more location and site suitable variety.

bugs have a way of finding stressed plants .... and a tree that caught fire is probably stressed .... 3 years isnt much time in tree time.. which is counted in decades ... probably one of the wooly aphid type creatures .. but i cant tell from the pix ... but it looks awful close to the house... it might be worth your while to have a certified arborist give you an onsite inspection of the trees overall health ... add your big city name to the link below ken https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=isa+certified+arborist&ia=web

Cunninghamia lanceolata would be my suggestion, too, based on proclivity to resprout from the base when winter dieback occurs around here. In northwest SC, I doubt winter kill is the cause, but rather the owners might have cut these back on purpose to create this effect.