Taxodiaceae

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Tasmania is the only place in the Southern Hemisphere that has plants from the family Taxodiaceae, including the King Billy pine, the pencil pine, and the long-lived huon pine.

Tasmanian temperate rain forests 2008
Over 31 types of plant fossils have been identified although most are taxonomically identified at the family level: club mosses Selaginellaceae, royal fern Osmundaceae, curly grass fern Schizaeaceae, cypress Cupressaceae, plum yew Cephalotaxaceae, and swamp cypress Taxodiaceae, and the walnut tree Junglandacea.

Messel Pit fossil site, Germany 2008
It is now thought that a much more extensive population of this species was decimated during the Pleistocene ice ages, as were the Sequoia redwoods of California, another member of the Taxodiaceae.

Daba Mountains evergreen forests 2007
Taxodiaceae to be part of the Cupressaceae family, which includes the cypresses, redwoods, cryptomerias, cedars and others.

Museum Blogs 2010
Even the usually authoritative still shows the tree as being in the Taxodiaceae

Museum Blogs 2010
Taxodiaceae to be part of the Cupressaceae family, which includes the cypresses, redwoods, cryptomerias, cedars and others.

Museum Blogs 2010
Even the usually authoritative still shows the tree as being in the Taxodiaceae

Museum Blogs 2010
Taxodiaceae) and working through to Honeysuckle Family (

Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009