TAXODIUM distichum

'Deciduous Cypress''Swamp Cypres'. A strikingly beautiful tree and the most suitable conifer for wet soils. A large tree with fibrous, reddish-brown bark and strongly buttressed trunk. Leaves linear and flattenes, grass-green, pectinate on short, deciduous shoots, spirally arranged on the persestent branchlets, turning bronze-yellow in autumn. When grown by water, large specimens produce peculiar 'knee-like' growths from the roots, which project above ground. In America it is known as the 'Bald Cypress.