Shade TREES

Bald Cypress 

Taxodium distichum

Tree Description: Large tree up to 150 feet, with a buttressed base and conic to rounded knees forming around the tree with age; intermediate shade tolerant. 

Twig/Bark: Reddish brown to gray bark, fibrous with shallow furrows. Twigs are brown long shoots, rough, bearing individual leaves with short shoots bearing groups of leaves that shed as a single unit in the Fall.

Leaf: Leaf shape is orbicular and irregularly serrated. Upper surface is green to dark green, the lower surface usually white-glaucous. Fall color is yellow-orange to red. 

Cone: Pollen cones are green when young in the Spring that turn brown in pendent panicles. Seed cones in Fall are single or in clusters of 2-3 that dry at maturity, breaking into several 4-sided scales. Each scale has up to 2 seeds.

Habitat: Swamps, sloughs, depressions in bottomland forests, lake margins and river banks.

All plants, as well as size, color and cultivar, will vary based upon availability.

13206 Asher Road
Little Rock, AR 72206
501-897-4931

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