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    Taxodium distichum, or bald cypress, is a stately, pyramidal deciduous conifer that tolerates both dry and very wet sites. It has fine-textured green summer foliage that turns cinnamon-brown in autumn. Its ornamental red-brown exfoliating bark and winter catkins also make it attractive year-round. Bald cypress is rapid growing and adaptable, but its taproot makes transplanting difficult for larger trees. It is native to southern US swamps, rivers, and bayous.

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    Taxodium distichum, or bald cypress, is a stately, pyramidal deciduous conifer that tolerates both dry and very wet sites. It has fine-textured green summer foliage that turns cinnamon-brown in autumn. Its ornamental red-brown exfoliating bark and winter catkins also make it attractive year-round. Bald cypress is rapid growing and adaptable, but its taproot makes transplanting difficult for larger trees. It is native to southern US swamps, rivers, and bayous.

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    Taxodium distichum, or bald cypress, is a stately, pyramidal deciduous conifer that tolerates both dry and very wet sites. It has fine-textured green summer foliage that turns cinnamon-brown in autumn. Its ornamental red-brown exfoliating bark and winter catkins also make it attractive year-round. Bald cypress is rapid growing and adaptable, but its taproot makes transplanting difficult for larger trees. It is native to southern US swamps, rivers, and bayous.

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    Taxodium distichum, or bald cypress, is a stately, pyramidal deciduous conifer that tolerates both dry and very wet sites. It has fine-textured green summer foliage that turns cinnamon-brown in autumn. Its ornamental red-brown exfoliating bark and winter catkins also make it attractive year-round. Bald cypress is rapid growing and adaptable, but its taproot makes transplanting difficult for larger trees. It is native to southern US swamps, rivers, and bayous.

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    Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress (Taxodiaceae)

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    Taxodium distichum is a very upright, pyramidal, Assets
    stately tree that tolerates dry to very wet sites. Bald -stately and formal year-round appearance, being a
    Cypress has fine-textured, medium green summer strongly pyramidal focal point that maintains its
    foliage, good orange-brown autumn foliage, central leader throughout its life (actually a deciduous
    ornamental red-brown exfoliating bark, and winter conifer)
    catkins. -rapid growth and establishment
    -wet-site-loving and dry-site-adaptable
    FEATURES -ultra-fine-textured foliage (resulting in dappled shade
    Form in youth) and fine-textured true stems
    -large tree, deciduous conifer -exfoliating strips of subtly ornamental cinnamon
    -maturing at about 70' tall x 30' wide bark
    under urban conditions, but much -rich cinnamon-brown autumn leaf color
    larger in the wild (where in the -leaf cleanup in autumn is minimal or not needed
    Southern U.S. it may have Spanish catkins in late winter and early spring are attractive on
    Moss hanging from its branches) mature trees as they sway in the wind
    -upright pyramidal growth habit, sometimes -bark and wood is processed from natural stands in the
    becoming upright conical with age Southeastern U.S. as a slow-decaying, orange-brown
    -rapid growth rate mulch
    Culture Liabilities
    -full sun -none serious
    -prefers acidic soils but is adaptable to heavy, alkaline -taproot system makes B&B transplant success
    soils (alkaline soils may result in some chlorosis) difficult with larger caliper saleable trees (hence the
    -tolerates very dry or very wet sites practices of field
    -prefers sandy soils root-pruning of
    -virtually no diseases or pests of significance saplings while
    -moderately available, primarily in B&B in production, or
    Foliage growing in
    -spirally arranged along the stems, with the leaves on containers,
    deciduous branchlet should alleviate
    -linear, very fine-textured, medium green in summer, this problem)
    and becoming cinnamon-brown in autumn before Habitat
    abscising -Zones 4 to 9
    -Native to
    Southern U.S.
    swamps, rivers,
    and bayous

    SELECTIONS
    Alternates
    -stately pyramidal trees of deciduous foliage (Alnus
    glutinosa, Liquidambar styraciflua, Metasequoia
    glyptostroboides, Oxydendrum arboreum, etc.)
    -evergreen foliage (Abies concolor, Picea abies, Picea
    pungens, Pinus strobus 'Fastigiata', Tsuga
    canadensis, etc.)
    -trees that perform very well in both dry or wet sites
    (Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Gleditsia triacanthos,
    Flowers Quercus palustris, Salix alba, etc.)
    -monoecious, pendulous staminate immature -trees with fine texture, at least when in foliage
    inflorescences to 4" in winter, pistillate flowers, (Gleditsia triacanthos, Metasequoia glyptostroboides,
    ornamentally insignificant Quercus phellos, Salix babylonica, etc.)
    -Mar.-Apr., with the staminate flowers elongating and -other deciduous conifers (Larix, Metasequoia,
    swaying in the breeze Pseudolarix)
    Fruits Cultivars - Variants - Related species
    -1" brown cones maturing in 1 yr., often go
    unnoticed
    Twigs -Taxodium distichum 'Shawnee Brave'
    -stems light green and thin, becoming brown with - more narrow than the species form,
    prominent rounded leaf scars to 75' x 20'
    Trunk
    -exfoliating in thin strips with a red-brown color
    -trunk very straight with a strong central leader,
    slowly tapering to the apex
    -buttressing "knees" may develop if the roots are Note: appropriately termed a deciduous conifer,
    submerged in water since it sheds its foliage but is a member of the
    predominately evergreen Taxodiaceae
    USAGE
    Function
    -specimen or focal point tree
    -wet or dry site tree
    Texture
    -fine textured in foliage and when bare
    -average density in foliage and when bare

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