Taxodium distichum – Bald Cypress – Swamp Cypress –

Description

T. distichum – Bald Cypress – Swamp Cypress – This fast growing conical tree, grows to 70-130′ feet tall and 20-30′ feet wide.It often becomes columnar and often ragged with age.It bears pale brown, shallowly fissured fibrous red bark with knobbly ‘knee’s’.On deciduous shoots , leaves are 3/4″ long, alternate (almost opposite), 2 ranked, narrowly lance shaped, and bright green, turning rusty-red in autumn then golden brown before falling..On persistent shoots, leaves are small and scale like.Spherical green female cones, 1 1/4″ across, ripen to brown in autumn, pendent male cones expand in late winter. Grow in any moist to wet, preferably acidic soil even clay or sandy soils in full or partial shade.They are flood tolerate. zones 5-11