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Key to Conifers
Taxodium - Bald Cypress, Pond Cypress
Trees with deciduous branchlets and prominent pneumatophores
("knees"); needle leaves, deciduous, somewhat flattened,
alternate; cones globose to elliptic, 2-3 cm long, shattering
at maturity; cone scales peltate.
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Taxodium ascendens - Pond Cypress
(Photographed at Brookside Gardens, Wheaton Regional
Park, Maryland)
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Taxodium ascendens - Pond Cypress
(Photographed at Brookside Gardens, Wheaton Regional
Park, Maryland)
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Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress - Mature seed
cones and deciduous branchlets.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress - Small pneumatophore
("Cypress Knee).
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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