Saving and loading Instanced Static mesh components from an Foliage Actor

[ClockworkOcean]

The remove instance node probably takes the reference to the whole foliage actor as the reference, I assume.

I don’t understand why you seem to have separate objects in the outliner.

Take a look at this

How to Interact with Foliage in Unreal Engine 5 - Chop Down Trees

and

UE5 - Save Foliage Changes at Runtime - (Beginner Tutorial) (BP)