Cypress is a softwood, which means it comes from a conifer (needle-leaved trees that produce seed-bearing cones, often referred to as “evergreens”) rather than a deciduous tree (trees that ...

Cypress trees are evergreen trees that can produce woody cones, which contain their seeds. The handful of native species of cypress tree all occur in the Far West, in the United States.

The tecate cypress, a remnant Ice Age tree that grows only in a few places in Southern California and Mexico, needs fire in order to regenerate. The fire’s heat coaxes open the tree’s cones ...

Cypress and hemlocks have needles that are flattened and attached to the twig with leaf stalks. While cone sizes vary, they are generally much smaller than other types of conifers and tend to form ...

Right off, you can see the big trees and their cone-shaped knees growing in the dark water. No one really knows why cypress grow knees in the water yet don’t grow knees on land.

Bald cypress is one of the few deciduous cone-bearing trees. I am writing this article in late October, and cypress needles are just starting to turn color like their broad-leaved compatriots.

These trees are known as Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum). The Bald Cypress is a large, slow-growing, and long-lived tree. It can reach heights of up to 120 feet with trunks up to 7 feet in diameter.

Dawn redwood has much smaller, rather rectangular cones, growing in clusters on long stems. Bald cypress has been around for a long time — something like 160 million years. It lived beside the ...

The trees have siblings, called Santa Cruz cypress, in four other small groves in Santa Cruz County, according to a 2009 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service study. But the DNA code, oils and cone size ...

As to the problem with knees, most cypress trees planted in well-drained average landscapes do not produce knees. But once a tree starts, there is no way to make it stop other than removing the tree.