Taxodium distichum

• BOTANICAL NAME: Taxodium distichum
• PRONUNCIATION: tax-OH-dium DIS-tic-hum
• COMMON NAME: Common Baldcypress
• FAMILY: Taxodiaceae
• NATIVITY: Virginia to Louisiana
• GROWTH HABIT: 50 - 70'.
• HARDINESS: Zone 4 - 11.
• CULTURE: Found near water, often times right beside water than actually in it; sun and swampy areas
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS:  Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Obligate
• LANDSCAPE USE: Grows well in wet areas and often found in parks near lakes and ponds
• FOLIAGE: Fall color, buttressing  Deciduous conifer; single branchlet with needles that are parallel; change to gold in the fall
• BUDS: Alternate near tip of stem, overlapping sharply pointed scales
• BARK: - knees Light reddish brown and deeply furrowed
• FRUIT:  Small cones that are short-stalked and globose; flowers are monoecious; males form drooping panicles while females are scattered near the ends of branches
• PESTS: Mites and galls