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Taxodium distichum (baldcypress, [3] [4] [5] bald-cypress, [6] bald cypress, swamp cypress; French: cyprès chauve; cipre in Louisiana) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States. Hardy and tough, this tree adapts to a wide range of soil types, whether wet, salty, dry, or swampy.
Hesperocyparis arizonica was given its first scientific name and described by Edward Lee Greene in 1882 as Cupressus arizonica, placing it in genus Cupressus. [3] [5] This description was soon after disputed by Maxwell T. Masters who, in 1896, published a journal article where he said it should be considered a subspecies of Cupressus benthamii with the variety name of arizonica. [3]
According to published papers and monographs, [2] [12] [13] the average trend of the long axes of Carolina Bays varies from N16°W in east-central Georgia to N22°W in southern South Carolina, N39°W in northern South Carolina, N49°W in North Carolina, and N64°W in Virginia. Within this part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the orientation of ...
The Francis Beidler Forest is an Audubon wildlife sanctuary in Four Holes Swamp, a blackwater creek system in South Carolina, United States. It consists of over 18,000 acres (73 km²) of mainly bald cypress and tupelo gum hardwood forest and swamp with approximately 1,800 acres (7 km 2) of old-growth forest. It is the largest virgin stand of ...
Loblolly pine trees dominate forests in most of the state, while oak, gum, and cypress trees are common in northeastern South Carolina; and oak and white pine are more common in the mountains. Changing the climate may alter the composition of forests throughout the state to more closely reflect the oak and white pine forests found today in the ...
Other varieties of Christmas trees include Murray Cypress, Blue Ice Cypress, and Thuja Green Giant. Brown Christmas Tree Farm Browns Christmas Tree Farm in Lexington has been in business 20-plus ...
The Santee Cypress Company shut down its Ferguson operations in 1915. Workers were laid off, and the town was soon abandoned and became a ghost town. The post office ceased operations in 1917. [3] The Santee Cooper Power and Navigation Project, commenced in 1939, included the construction of the Santee Dam downstream from the Ferguson ghost ...
Cypress canker is a disease affecting Cupressus species, caused by one of several species of fungus in the genus Seiridium. Infection causes die-back of twigs and branches in susceptible cypress trees, [ 1 ] with rapidly increasing amounts of damage and the death of the tree.