The bald cypress flourishes in southern swamplands. Bald cypress "knees" are woody, knobby projects that fan out from the tree's trunk. A cone-bearing tree called bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) ...

Not every plant with a needle is an evergreen. Last week, we learned larches drop their needles in the fall. Other, more common trees that drop their needles are the bald cypress and its close ...

Even its name is off-putting. Regardless, it stands tall as the rock star of Delaware's freshwater wetlands in Sussex County, home of the northernmost natural stand of bald cypress in the country. And ...

Nature sometimes appears to have an ironic sense of humor, if maybe a bit dark. The tecate cypress, a remnant Ice Age tree that grows only in a few places in Southern California and Mexico, needs fire ...

We have a bald cypress tree, and we were wondering if the needles from the cypress tree we are raking up now would be good for mulching. We know oak leaves are a good mulch, but are maple leaves also ...

Relics of the past, a single stand of rare cypress trees once grew atop a small slab of sandstone on a remote, rugged ridge along the San Mateo County coast. They were alone in the world. And then ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - This spring, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation plans to spread one million mostly cypress and Tupelo seeds over three sites along Louisiana’s coast, the second attempt to ...