Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / iii / Paper 220 / 1 / c / Solution

The assertion is false. Join, at one common endpoint $o$, a line segment of length $1/n$ for every positive integer $n$, and use the intrinsic path metric. This is a real tree. It is totally bounded, because outside the first finitely many arms every point lies arbitrarily close to $o$, and it is complete; hence it is compact. Removing $o$ leaves one connected component for every arm, so $o$ has countably infinite multiplicity of a point in a real tree.