Taxodium occurs as genus of 1 to 3 mintage (based in taxonomical opinion) of pleasantly flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae, one of several genera in the personal normally called cypresses. Inside a personal, Taxodium is virtually all closely related to Chinese Swamp Cypress (Glyptostrobus pensilis) and Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica).

Coinage of Taxodium occur in the southern section of the North American continent and come deciduous in the north & semi-evergreen plant to evergreen in the south. It is big trees, reaching 30-45 m tall and Two-Three m (exceptionally Xi m) trunk across. A needle-such as leaves, 0.Five-both cm hanker, come borne spirally in a shoots, twisted at the base then when to come out within two flat rows on either side of the shoot. A cones are globose, Two-Three.Fivesome cm across, sustaining 10-25 scales, every shell sustaining One-Two seeds; it are matured within 7-9 months after pollenation, when they decompose to release a seeds. A male (pollen) cones come produced around nodding racemes, & shed their pollen around early spring.

Species
A threesome taxa of Taxodium are treated on this text when distinct metal money, though a few botanists treat them within only 1 or even ii mintage, sustaining a others considered when varieties of the number 1 described. A deuce-ace come distinct within ecology, growing in different environments, however hybridise in which it meet.

Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress A virtually all familiar coinage in the genus is the Bald Cypress, native to great deal of the southeastern United States, from Delaware to Texas and inland up a Mississippi River to southern Indiana. It occurs primarily along lakes by owning silt-rich flood deposits.

Taxodium ascendens - Pond Cypress A Pond Cypress occurs inside a range of Bald Cypress, but only on the southeastern coastal plain from either North Carolina to Louisiana. It occurs within however blackwater rivers, ponds & lakes while forgoing silt-rich flood deposits.

Taxodium mucronatum - Montezuma Cypress A Montezuma Cypress occurs from either a Rio Grande south to the highlands of southern Mexico, and differs from either a more deuce mintage inside existence substantially evergreen. The specimen at Santa Maria del Tule inside Oaxaca, the Ã?rbol del Tule, is 43 m tall and has a greatest trunk thickness of any dwelling tree, Eleven.42 m from side to side. These are a riparian tree, occurring on the banks of streams, lakes, & wells throughout & lakes, non around lakes prefer the Bald and Pond cypress.

Uses
A trees come especially prized for their wood, of which the duramen is super decompose & white ant resistive, by having a notable exception of the unsuspecting hosts-specific Pecky Rot fungus (Stereum taxodii), which causes a few damaged trees to be hollow & so useless for timber. "A biochemical called cypressene is believed to act as a natural preservative in the heartwood, but it takes many decades to build up in the wood, making lumber cut from old-growth trees much more resistant to decay than lumber from younger trees". - Sternberg, G., Indigene Trees for N Our contries Landscapes pp. 476. Bald Cypress wood was good deal utilized witharound previoU.s. times in southeastern US for shingles. A chopped bark of these trees is used as a mulch, although the todays harvest rate for this product is non sustainable & is stimulating material environmental damage.