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	Bald Cypress - Plant of the Week
		Bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, is familiar to all southerners because it grows along waterways and bayous in soft, moist ground throughout the region.
		Bald cypress maintains a tolerance of cold and grows as far north a Maine and Michigan when used in the landscape.
		Leaves of bald cypress are small and needle-like and produced in random arrangement along the small branches of the limbs.
	www.arhomeandgarden.org /plantoftheweek/articles/Bald_Cypress.htm (608 words)

	AllRefer.com - bald cypress, Plant (Plants) - Encyclopedia
		The redwoods (see sequoia) and the bald cypresses are the only species native to North America.
		The bald cypresses (genus Taxodium) were widely distributed in the geologic past but are now restricted to the SE United States and Mexico.
		The bald cypress family is classified in the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, order Coniferales.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/baldcypr.html (304 words)

	VA NHP Cypress-Tupelo Swamp Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Virginia, bald cypress and water tupelo are often found together in these deepwater swamps and have developed a variety of adaptations for surviving flooded conditions.
		In Virginia, large, undisturbed tracts of bald cypress-water tupelo swamps are rare and occur mainly in the southeastern part of the state where bald cypress approaches its northern range limit.
		The primary threat to bald cypress-water tupelo swamps in Virginia is disruption of the habitat by human activity.
	www.dcr.state.va.us /dnh/wcypress.htm (606 words)

	Learn About Cypress
		BALD CYPRESS-The bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, is an attractive coniferous tree of the southeastern United States.
		Cypress (tree), common name for several coniferous trees and shrubs of the genus Cupressus and allied genera of the family Cupressaceae.
		Another true cypress is the cedar of Goa, or Portugal cedar, C. lusitanica, which is often planted in the United States for the decorative effect of its spreading branches.
	www.cypressloghomes.com /cypress.htm (917 words)

	Natural Heritage Program - RTE Plants - Bald Cypress Swamps
		Maryland’s bald cypress swamps are some of the northern most occurrences of this community type, the range of which is centered on the southeastern United States.
		Bald cypress trees are conifers, which have seeds borne in cones.
		Bald cypress trees are tall and massive, achieving heights in excess of 50 meters, growing slowly but living to the ripe old age of 600 years or more.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/rtebaldcypressswamps.asp (1236 words)

	Bald Cypress, UA Fort Smith Arboretum, UA Fort Smith
		Bald Cypress is a beautiful tree with fern-like foliage resembling an evergreen conifer.
		Bald Cypress is the tree planted on the north and west side of the Smith Pendergraft Campus Center.
		Bald Cypress seeds, which have a very pleasant aroma, are irregularly shaped wedges covered in a resinous coating that retards wetting and resists insects.
	www.uafortsmith.edu /Arboretum/BaldCypress?skin= (318 words)

	Bald Cypress
		The Bald Cypress is so-named to distinguish it from the evergreen true cypresses in other parts of the world.
		Bald cypress used to be the dominant tree in coastal swamps and river bottomlands from Delaware to Florida to Texas and up the Mississippi valley to Cairo and the Wabash River.
		The cypress is unique because its many submerged roots send up spongy or hollow woody cones, called "knees ", which usually reach to high-water level -- often several feet -- and these are supposed to furnish air to the roots, as well as additional anchorage for the trees.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/400-499/nb439.htm (562 words)

	Bald Cypress
		Common Bald Cypress looks like an evergreen but is really deciduous as it drops its leaves in the fall.
		Bald cypress has needles, but in the fall those needles turn orange-brown and then fall off.
		Most bald cypress trees are grown in containers and can be planted any time during the growing season (early spring - late fall).
	www.landscape-america.com /landscapes/trees/bald_cypress.html (271 words)

	Planting Cypress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cypress is well suited for lands that are intermittently to permanently flooded with water up to several feet (1 m) deep (See Figure 3).
		A common cause of death of cypress seedlings is extended drought in the post-planting period.
		Cypress seedlings grow slowest where light levels are low, such as beneath a full tree canopy; nutrients are in low supply; and water levels are either too high or they are so low that the soil in the root zone is dry for long periods.
	edis.ifas.ufl.edu /FR152 (4154 words)

	Cypress Marsh
		The cypress marsh between Hammond and Garner roads is a rare gem of nature inside the beltline.
		Bald cypress is more typically found in the coastal plain of North Carolina, it is unusual to find natural cypress trees as far west as Raleigh.
		Cypress trees also have mysterious looking structures that grow up from their roots, usually a few feet away from the trunk.
	courses.soil.ncsu.edu /ssc570/student_projects/571_web_page/cypress.htm (650 words)

	Pond cypress
		ond cypress is a natural buffer between the bald cypress forest and the wet prairie/pine flatwood.
		Pond cypress are smaller than the bald cypress that are more commonly found deeper in the swamp.
		Superficially, the pond cypress have a slightly different appearance -- the bark is more deeply ridged, the needles spiral around their stems, and they grow in much closer proximity to each other.
	www.audubon.org /Local/Sanctuary/Corkscrew/Visit/Pond_cypress.html (182 words)

	PISCES - Cypress: Flora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The bald cypress grows to heights of 150 feet (45 m) or more, in or along flowing water such as rivers and springs.
		The pond cypress is smaller than the bald cypress and thrives near ponds with slow-moving or still water.
		In contrast with the bald cypress, the pond cypress knees are rounded and blunt at the tips.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/southflorida/everglades/cypress/flora.html (296 words)

	Tree Totem-Trees-Bald Cypress
		The Bald Cypress growing season is not reflective of the normal seasons but rather in response to the changing water level.
		The common bald cypress forms dense forests in the southeastern swamplands and is a common tree of the Everglades.
		Bald cypress stands are critically important habitat for waterfowl, raptors and other birds.
	treetotem.com /tebaldcypress.htm (2556 words)

	Bald Cypress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The range of the bald cypress includes southern Delaware to south Florida, west to Texas and north to southeast Oklahoma, southwest Indiana, and southern Illinois.
		The bald cypress lends itself to formal upright, informal upright, slanting, literati, twin-trunk and group styles.
		Developing cypress "knees." There's still considerable debate over what these knees are "for" in nature, but they are a distinctive feature of bald cypress.
	www.bonsai-bci.com /species/taxodium.html (1137 words)

	DNR
		This area contains bald cypress trees that are more than 1,000 years old and are possibly some of the oldest living things east of the Mississippi River.
		Cypress wood is very resistant to decay and the wood is considered valuable for a variety of products such as shingles, boats, railroad ties, caskets, fence posts, bridges, greenhouses and flats for nursery plants.
		The bald cypress tree has one very unique part that develops from the roots and protrudes up through the water as much as 10 feet.
	dnr.state.il.us /lands/education/kids/cypress.htm (242 words)

	Dallas Bonsai Garden - bonsai tools and supplies
		By Thomas J. The Bald Cypress, also known as Taxodium Distichum is a tree that is very common in my part of the world; that being the southern portion of the United States.
		Most bonsai enthusiasts who admire Bald Cypress, don't have the opportunity to go to the swamps to hunt down that tree that's going to be their favorite in their collection of trees, myself included.
		The wood on Bald Cypress is very soft compared to most other trees, and you shouldn’t have any trouble cutting the trunk or even the roots, as they too are pretty soft, especially the tap root.
	www.dallasbonsai.com /bonsai_tree_care_TomM_BaldCyprus1.html (1400 words)

	Taxodium distichum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taxodium distichum, also known as Bald Cypress, Baldcypress or Swamp Cypress, is a species of conifer native to the southeastern United States, from Delaware Bay south to Florida and west to southern Texas, and also inland up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers north to southern Illinois and Indiana.
		Bald Cypress occurs mainly along riparian (riverside) wetlands subject to periodic flooding by silt-rich 'brownwater' rivers, unlike the related Pond Cypress, which occurs in silt-poor flwater rivers and ponds.
		The Bald Cypress was designated the official state tree of Louisiana in 1963, and is considered by some to be a symbol of the southern swamps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bald_cypress (601 words)

	THE BALD CYPRESS
		Cypresses are monoecious; the cone is round and usually at the end of twig as a single, pair, or clusters.
		In favorable environments mature cypresses reach heights of 100' to 120' and have a diameter of 3' to 5' (Elias, E.S., 1987) but in some nutrient deficient/anoxic habitats populations of stunted trees exist and actually live for hundreds of years.
		Cypresses in dwarf swamps (nutants) are small in statue due to poor growing conditions.
	sciences.aum.edu /bi/BI4523/student/Kelly/summary.html (1233 words)

	Bald Cypress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bald Cypress tree and the Tamarack shed all of their leaves in the fall, the only native conifers to do so.
		The Bald Cypress typically is associated with water and swamps, growing in very wet or even submerged soils.
		One of the most famous cypress trees is the "Tree of the Sorrowful Night", under which Cortes wept in 1520 after he had lost most of his men in battle.
	faculty.ncwc.edu /ekosal/arboretum/bald_cypress.htm (175 words)

	Bald Cypress
		The bald cypress is the only member of its family that is native to North America- in fact, according to Yahoo!Encyclopedia.com, the redwood and the bald cypress are the only two trees native to this continent.
		The wood of the Bald Cypress is also strong and heavy making it great for outdoor construction as it is resistant to shrinkage, rotting and termites.
		The resin in the cones on the Bald Cypress were also used as a healing balm for various aliments, especially rashes on the skin and wounds.
	www.bellarmine.edu /faculty/drobinson/BaldCypress.asp (317 words)

	Tennessee State Parks: Big Cypress Tree State Park
		It is a bottomland hardwood and bald cypress forest that occurs along the old river meanders and the channelized Middle Fork of the Obion River (MFOR).
		A bald cypress forest is present in the many sloughs and the depressional areas along the river.
		This forest is comprised of bald cypress, river birch, sweet gum, sycamore, overcup oak, water oak, willow oak, and cherrybark oak.
	www.state.tn.us /environment/parks/BigCypress/index.shtml (827 words)

	BALD CYPRESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bald cypresses are abundant in the marshy areas of the Historic Triangle.Most of them are young trees but one located on Powhatan Creek near Jamestown was probably a large tree when the settlers arrived in 1607.
		The leaves of the bald cypress are flat and pea green during the spring and summer months but turn a russet brown before dropping in Autumn.
		Because cypress is very durable it is in demand for interior house finishing, shingles, and fencing.
	www.baylink.org /wpc/cypress.html (232 words)

	Big Cypress National Preserve - Nature & Science
		Cypress domes are small, relatively discrete areas of freshwater swamp dominated by bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees.
		In the margins of cypress domes, the community becomes transitional with the surrounding marl prairies, so that nutrient-rich organic material is not common in the soils, and the soils often become desiccated during the dry season.
		Cypress swamps that contain significant populations of hardwood trees that co-dominate the tree canopy with bald cypress trees are often referenced as mixed hardwood and cypress swamps.
	www.nps.gov /bicy/pphtml/subnaturalfeatures32.html (3695 words)

	Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) seeds for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bald cypress is a large tree, reaching heights of 100-150 feet.
		Bald cypress trees are among the oldest in the state.
		Bald Cypress bark is reddish brown to gray, fibrous, and peels in long shreds.
	www.mathematical.com /cypressseedforsale.htm (714 words)

	Bald cypress
		The majestic, old growth bald cypress trees at Corkscrew are approaching 600 years in age and reach heights of 130 feet.
		Because the peat may only be several feet deep, mature cypress trees rely on an extensive system of horizontal roots; cypress knees grow up from the roots to provide the extra stability necessary to have weathered hundreds of years of storms and hurricanes.
		Because the cypress lose their needles for several months during the winter, light filters down to the forest floor enabling a rich diversity of understory plants to thrive.
	www.audubon.org /local/sanctuary/corkscrew/Visit/Bald_cypress.html (216 words)

	MY FAVORITE TREE IS Bald Cypress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Maybe it was the unforgettable cottonmouth snakes that frequented the same area where bald cypress was found growing.
		Bald Cypress was one of the more than one hundred kinds of trees that was subsequently used on Lansing's streets.
		Bald Cypress trees are perhaps the most tolerant of any tree that I know.
	www.mfpa-isa.org /Cool.htm (539 words)

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