Bald Cypress

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

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