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Their leaves are soft and feathery, and they have strange cone-shaped growths surrounding the trunk. These trees are known as Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum).

Their leaves are soft and feathery, and they have strange cone-shaped growths surrounding the trunk. These trees are known as bald cypress (Taxodium distichum).

These trees are known as bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). The bald cypress is a large, slow-growing and long-lived tree. It can reach heights of up to 120 feet with trunks up to seven feet in ...

Paul Smith’s College Sophomore Meredith Valley throws dirt as she plants a bald cypress on campus. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone) The college is also growing its tree nursery, led by ...

Shana Williams learns about bald cypress trees and old growth forests with Jeff Wright and Maeve Coker from Friends of Dragon Run at the Dragon Run watershed on the Middle Peninsula. Featured on ...

And the “bald” part of cypress? It’s deciduous. Like larches in the autumn, baldcypress leaves turn a beautiful coppery color then drop, to leave the silvery bark to carry structural detail through ...

Bald cypress trees are native to the swamps of the Southeast, which are much closer to sea level and contain a higher concentration of nutrients in the soil. Let’s highlight a few advantages of ...

Austin isn’t known for its fall foliage. But some years, when the region gets the right combination of rain, cold weather, and shorter days, a certain magic happens. The bald cypress trees, pecans, ...

In autumn, bald cypress leaves turn yellow, orange and red before falling off the trees. The mix of autumnal colors and wispy Spanish moss gives the cypress swamps a haunted look. During the past few ...