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Two possible solutions:

First, when the Clone Stamp is activated, there is a setting in the toolbar called "Aligned". When you say above that you can't set the clone stamp to a "fixed source", the "Aligned" setting addresses that. Uncheck that box and then your clone stamp will work from a fixed source that you can repeatedly stamp all over the place.

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A second solution will work if you're willing to get pretty close to your tree PNG, but not exactly perfect.

• Create a custom brush from your Tree PNG. (I assume you know how to do that.)
• Set your foreground and background colors to light green and dark green, as sampled from the Tree image.
• With the brush tool active and this new custom brush selected, open the Brush Panel (see red arrow) and check the boxes for Scattering and for Color Dyamics.
• Color Dynamics will automatically toggle between your foreground and background colors as you draw with the tree brush. Set the Foreground/Background jitter to 100%.

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With these settings, you can quickly paint trees across a large area, like this:

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Now duplicate this layer and change the blend mode to Color Burn. You get this, which possibly might be good enough for your purposes.

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