bald cypress: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Taxodium distichum • swamp cypress

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Bald cypress trees with wide, flared trunks stand in still, shallow water in a Louisiana swamp, their green foliage creating a dense canopy.

Okefenokee Swamp

Bald cypress trees

Big Cypress National Preserve

Cypress trees stand in shallow, green-tinged swamp water, with numerous cypress knees protruding from the surface and dense foliage in the background.

Wooden boardwalk trail winding through a flooded swamp with tall bald cypress and tupelo trees in Congaree National Park, South Carolina.

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