Taxodium distichum
Habit | tree
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Height: | ⇕ | 75 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 75. |
Width: | ⇔ | 20 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20. |
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Water: | ◍ | wet, moist |
Features: | ✓ | evergreen, deciduous |
USDA Zones: | 6 to 10 |
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Taxodium distichum (Baldcypress, Bald Cypress, or Swamp Cypress) is a species of conifer native to the southeastern United States.[1][2][3]
It is a large tree, reaching 25–40 m (rarely to 44 m) tall and a trunk diameter of 2–3 m, rarely to 5 m. The bark is gray-brown to red-brown, shallowly vertically fissured, with a stringy texture. The leaves are borne on deciduous branchlets that are spirally arranged on the stem but twisted at the base to lie in two horizontal ranks, 1-2 cm long and 1-2 mm broad; unlike most other species in the family Cupressaceae, it is deciduous, losing the leaves in the winter months, hence the name 'bald'. It is monoecious. Male and female strobili mature in about 12 months; they are produced from buds formed in the late fall, with pollination in early winter. The seed cones are green maturing gray-brown, globular, 2-3.5 cm in diameter. They have from 20–30 spirally arranged four-sided scales, each bearing one or two (rarely three) trianglular seeds. The number of seeds per cone ranges from 20–40. The cones disintegrate when mature to release the large seeds. The seeds are 5-10 mm long, the largest of any species in the cypress family, and are produced every year but with heavy crops every three to five years. The seedlings have 3–9 (most often 6) cotyledons.[1]
The main trunks are surrounded by cypress knees .
ExpandRead about Taxodium distichum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Farjon, A. (2005). Monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-068-4
- ↑ Flora of North America: Taxodium distichum
- ↑ Gymnosperm Database: Taxodium distichum