If you will excuse me substituting a polyhedron for the Riemannian manifold
(imagine rounding the vertices),
this figure shows how the cut locus (red) from source $x$ is a tree.
(The green arcs are equidistant from $x$.)
(Figure from Discrete and Computational Geometry)
Joseph O'Rourke
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