pond cypress

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pond cypress trees (Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium)

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pond cypress (plural pond cypresses)

  1. A variety of bald cypress native to blackwater rivers of the Southeastern United States; a deciduous conifer of species Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium (formerly known as Taxodium ascendens).
    • 2006 June 27, Robert Mohlenbrock, This Land: A Guide to Eastern National Forests, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 26:
      Most of the pond cypress leaves are twisted so that they stand erect along the upper side of the twigs, creating a featherlike effect. By contrast, the leaves of bald cypress are arranged in a spiral all around the twigs.
    • 2016 November 3, Thomas E. Lodge, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 99:
      In areas of peat soils, bald cypress dominates, and in marl soils, pond cypress dominates. Their growth forms are distinctive--bald cypress limbs extending horizontally and pond cypress extending at a uniform upward angle.

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