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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.
Bald cypress [a] Taxodium distichum: 1963 [26] Maine: Eastern white pine: Pinus strobus: 1945 [27] Maryland: White oak (See also: Wye Oak) Quercus alba: 1941 [28] Massachusetts: American elm: Ulmus americana: 1941 [29] Michigan: Eastern white pine: Pinus strobus: 1955 [30] Minnesota: Red pine (aka Norway pine) Pinus resinosa: 1953 [31 ...
All of the conifers in the inventory except the larches and some bald cypresses are evergreens. [5] Apart from two species in the yew family, all are in either the pine family (including firs, larches, spruces, pines, Douglas firs and hemlocks) or the cypress family (including junipers, redwoods, giant sequoias, bald cypresses and four genera ...
Bald cypress is the state tree of Louisiana. Bald cypress, often festooned with Spanish moss, of southern swamps are another tourist attraction. They can be seen at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. Bald cypress "knees" are often sold as souvenirs, made into lamps, or carved to make folk art. [35]
African cypress (Widdringtonia species), native to Southern Africa [11]Bald, Pond, and Montezuma cypresses (Taxodium species), native to North AmericaChinese swamp cypress (Glyptostrobus pensilis), Vietnam, critically endangered [12]
Taxodium / t æ k ˈ s oʊ d i ə m / [1] is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae.The name is derived from the Latin word taxus, meaning "yew", and the Greek word εἶδος (eidos), meaning "similar to."
Cypress (Chamaecyparis, Cupressus, Taxodium) Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica) Bald cypress, southern cypress (Taxodium distichum) Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) Lawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) Mediterranean cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Taxodium ascendens, also known as pond cypress, [2] is a deciduous conifer of the genus Taxodium, native to North America.Many botanists treat it as a variety of bald cypress, Taxodium distichum (as T. distichum var. imbricatum) rather than as a distinct species, but it differs in habitat, occurring mainly in still blackwater rivers, ponds and swamps without silt-rich flood deposits.