The swamp lakes of the American South offer serenity and beauty. This particularly remote one in Mississippi also boasts ...

Ancient bald cypress trees tower along the Black River in the state of North ... The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a U.S.-based conservation NGO, acquired 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares) in the area, ...

North America’s ancient bald cypress forests have told scientists about history’s legendary droughts and wet periods. Now they’re warning us about the future.

A stand of bald cypress trees in North Carolina, including one least 2,624 years old, are the oldest known living trees in eastern North America and the oldest wetland tree species in the world.

I’ve often been asked if there is a bald cypress that does not produce knees. Our two native cypresses, bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens), both may produce ...

"The area of old growth bald cypress was 10 times larger than I realized," Stahle said in a statement. "We think there are older trees out there still." ...

A bald cypress, Louisiana's state tree, ... (The critical root zone is a circular area with a radius of 12 inches to every inch diameter of trunk, taken at 4 1/2 feet above the soil level.) ...

Before this period, bald cypress trees in the region commonly lived for more than 470 years. However, after 500 A.D., their average lifespan declined sharply to just 186 years.

Pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens) is a species of bald cypress. (Howard Garrett / Special Contributor) The right soil. The lesson from this project is that pond cypress can be a good choice for ...

Daviess County has a few bald cypress trees in the Sugarland Hills area and a few more south of Washington along the U.S. 50 Bypass, but these are not native and apparently came from a now out of ...