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Originally Posted by weeble
Sigh... a brown scratch test is pretty conclusively a dead plant where you scratched. You might look in other areas and see if there are areas that still scratch green, but I'm guessing its now a 'finished bonsai'. Sometimes one limb will die off, but other limbs or the roots will still be alive and recover, so check more than one place.
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I basically agree.
Sometimes when a single limb dies but the rest is still OK, you'll see a marked difference in the texture of the bark. Dead branches have a wrinkled look to them whereas live branch bark is "tight" and somewhat plumper...
They tend to die from the branch tips back toward the roots - you might have a chance that the main trunk is alive - but it's very slim.
Bonsai - keep the little buggers outside, you know it makes sense...