Bald cypress trees usually draw extra attention during this time of year because their needles are changing colors and dropping to the ground like the leaves of many broadleaf trees. Since most ...

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. - Karen Joy Fowler Author Karen Joy Fowler has it right. When it comes to "immortal" trees in Illinois and the Eastern U.S., none have ...

What: Taxodium distichum, commonly called bald cypress, evokes the essence of the Deep South. Few would think that a tree from the swamps of the steamy southeastern United States would do so well in ...

Perry-lee West, likes everything about a bald cypress — from the way the tree looks in the fall, to the way it reproduces, from mysteries surrounding its knees, to the way those knees sequester soil ...

* What it is: A large, fairly slender and fairly fast-growing conifer (cone-bearing tree) with soft, flat, green needles that turn a beautiful russet color in fall before dropping. It's a U.S. native ...

I see that the New Jersey Heritage Program, which keeps track of these things, has decided that bald cypress, heretofore considered a non-native species, has been promoted to native on the strength of ...

In a past column I listed the bald cypress as one of the uncommon trees native to Indiana. I wrote so much about where it is found in our state that I ran out of space before I could describe what ...

It's been a fall of beautiful tree color, and I finally have gotten a photograph of one of the lesser known colorful trees, the bald cypress. I say "finally" because this tree is in my Bettendorf ...

This evergreen in the Kansas State University Research and Extension demonstration garden is adapting well to the cold weather in the Kansas City area. Heather Cwach Special to the Star A couple of ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Louisiana Super Plants program, an educational and marketing campaign that highlights tough and beautiful plants that perform well in Bayou State landscapes ...

* What it is: A fine-needled, light-green conifer with a dramatic, weeping habit. ‘Cascade Falls’ is a variety that grafts a weeping bald cypress found in New Zealand onto the roots of our native ...

HARRY R. WRITES: What is the difference between the dawn redwood and bald cypress? A neighbor has two trees that looked like our coastal redwood trees, but according to the neighbor, they are really ...