Taxodium

The inhabitants believe that an old city was buried by a sudden flood, and at some distance from Chapala, several trunks of Sabino [Bald cypresses] (Taxodium distichum of Richard), partially covered by water, can still be found.

Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009

The inhabitants believe that an old city was buried by a sudden flood, and at some distance from Chapala, several trunks of Sabino [Bald cypresses] (Taxodium distichum of Richard), partially covered by water, can still be found.

Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009

Bayheads contain isolated stands of willow Salix caroliniana on slight elevations or swamp cypress Taxodium distichum in depressions filled with organic matter.

Everglades National Park, United States 2009

Montezuma bald cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) was once common along the Rio Grande for 160 kilometers (km) (100 miles) from the Gulf of Mexico.

Tamaulipan mezquital 2008

They include swamp forest dominated by red bay (Persea borbonia), pond apple (Annona glabra) forests, Cypress (Taxodium ascendans) forests, and hardwood hammocks with a variety of tropical species, including palms, that occur in the U.S. only in southern Florida.

Everglades 2008

River swamp forests of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) and oak-dominated bottomland hardwood forests provide important wildlife habitat.

Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA) 2008

Valley dominants are tupelo (Nyssa aquatica), oak (Quercus spp.), and bald cypress (Taxodium distichum).

Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008

River swamp forests of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) and oak-dominated bottomland hardwood forests provide important wildlife corridors and habitat.

Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA) 2008

The highly organic soils of swamps form a thick, black, nutrient-rich environment for the growth of water-tolerant trees such as cypress (Taxodium spp.), Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), and tupelo (Nyssa aquatica).

Swamp 2007

River swamp forests, which are adapted to continuous flooding, contain baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica), which often codominate the canopy.

Mississippi lowland forests 2007