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 ...

Photo by Jennifer Gibson A row of MacNab cypresses at an old homestead in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. These trees are transplants from the original grove that was once located near the town ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...