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 ...

ROMULUS, MI – Cypress cones brought into the United States for medicinal purposes had surprise tagalongs inside them, U.S. Customs and Border Protection discovered. The insects found inside the cones ...

“Cypress” is a name or nickname bestowed on a variety of species of trees. Technically, the term refers to coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae. In that group, there are true cypress ...

Perry-lee West, likes everything about a bald cypress — from the way the tree looks in the fall, to the way it reproduces, from mysteries surrounding its knees, to the way those knees sequester soil ...

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 ...

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. - Karen Joy Fowler Author Karen Joy Fowler has it right. When it comes to "immortal" trees in Illinois and the Eastern U.S., none have ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Steve Tyson’s fascination with the bald cypress began not with a visit to the bayous of Louisiana or the low country of South Carolina, where the tree is known to thrive, but ...