I would extrude it but again it deoends on what engine you are using. Extruding it and keeping one mesh would probably make it easier to load into the engin (from my limited experience with loaders). You will need to triangulate it and for a tree it's looking a little heavy in terms of polys at the moment. What's your limit?
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