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Scientific Name: Taxodium distichum
Bald Cypress The Bald Cypress adapts well to the state of Texas. Foliage is medium green, soft textured, and ferny. Its very attractive fall color is a dark rust-red. This beautiful tree has the ability to live over 100 years and is excellent in wet soil conditions.
Interesting Notes
A stately deciduous conifer adaptable to wet or dry conditions. Best known in wet areas, does well in city conditions as far north as Milwaukee.
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Baldcypress trees are native from Maryland along the eastern coast to Texas and as far west as the Mississippi valley. The first scientific reference to the species was made in 1640. This tree has inspired much poetry and prose over the centuries due to its melancholy and mysterious appearance. Longfellow refers to its "towering and tenebrous boughs" that " Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals" in his 1847 poem, "Evangeline." Naturalist John Muir in his book "Thousand-Mile Walk" refers to "the dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything" and states that "Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness."
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