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Common Name: Bald Cypress
Scientific Name: Taxodium distichum
Location: Spalding Circle.
Size: 7 inches diameter at breast height
This tree typically grows to: 60-90 feet tall and 20-40 feet wide
This tree prefers these conditions: Full sun and medium to wet soils
Special about this tree:
- This is a conifer that sheds its leaves in fall, which is where the “bald” comes from.
- Foliage is soft, feathery “needles,” which are pale green in summer, and turn deep copper in fall before falling.
- Produces 1-inch diameter round cones.
- Common in the wild in swampy areas, and can produce “knees,” or knobby root stumps that grow vertically above the soil or water line.
- Resistant to deer
