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Taxodium distichum, also known as Bald Cypress, Baldcypress or Swamp Cypress, is a species of conifer native to the southeastern United States, from Delaware Bay south to Florida and west to southern Texas, and also inland up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers north to southern Illinois and Indiana.
It is a large tree, reaching 30-45 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 3 m. The leaves are spirally arranged but twisted at the base to lie in two horizontal ranks, 1-2 cm long and 1-2 mm broad; unlike most other cypresses, it loses the leaves in the winter months (hence the name 'bald'). The cones are green maturing gray-brown, globular, 2-3.5 cm in diameter, and disintegrate when mature to release the large seeds. The seeds are 5-10 mm long, the largest of any species in the cypress family, and are water-dispersed.
Bald Cypress occurs mainly along riparian (riverside) wetlands subject to periodic flooding by silt-rich 'brownwater' rivers, unlike the related Pond Cypress, which occurs in silt-poor blackwater rivers and ponds. Ancient Bald Cypress forests, with some trees over 1200 years old, once dominated swamps in the southeast US. The largest remaining stand of Bald Cypress is at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, near Naples, Florida. These trees are around 500 years of age and some exceed 40m (130 ft) in height.
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