Talk:Taxodium distichum

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Range
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio and there are several old and well established groups of bald cypress located here and in Northern Kentucky - even with the knobby "knees" and all comming out of the water. Please leave this information, I HAVE included a REFERENCE. Thank you.

Pittsburgh
There is one of these trees at the Pittsburgh Zoo. I mistook it for a Dawn Redwood. Might be something of interest for it's "un-natural range".Picture on Flickr--Cngodles (talk) 00:31, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Best Tree Ever
i think the bald cypress is the best tree every made

Doesn't it seem a bit odd that that the largest specimen of this tree is in the middle of its high range? I understand that the top half was knocked down, but the claim seems a little doubious to me.--Niro5 12:51, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * To be expected that the largest specimen is near the middle of the species' range - that's where growing conditions are ideal for it. Towards the edges of the range, various factors become less ideal (further north, too cold for fast, large growth; towards the coast, too exposed and windy with higher hurricane frequency; further west, too dry). If you look at the top of the photo on the Senator (tree) page, you can see the break where the top was broken out, presumably by a hurricane. - MPF 10:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The Senator isn't a bald cypress. It could be considered one, but Wikipedia currently recognizes Taxodium ascendens as a distinct species. The Senator is a pond cypress. Even if the species are lumped, they are still considered separate varieties.192.104.39.2 (talk) 17:36, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

largest forest vs. largest stand?
The Caddo Lake article claims that it is the largest Cyprus forest in the world. This article claims that Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is the largest Cyprus stand. What's the difference between a stand, in this context, and a forest? TerraFrost 02:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

updated range map
click this link at usda plants i would do it if i knew how Dec22-2010 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Troyeseffigy (talk • contribs) 20:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Baldcypress vs. Bald Cypress
I changed all the instances of Baldcypress to Bald Cypress. I assume the single word form is intended to distinguish between true cypresses (Cupressus) and other "cypresses". I strongly dislike attempts by scientists to regulate common names as being "incorrect". Moreover, the Wikipedia pages for Taxodium, Taxodium ascendens and Taxodium mucronatum all use the two word form (i.e., Pond Cypress, Montezuma Cypress, and on the Taxodium genus page, T. distichum is already referred to as Bald Cypress. The two word form is far more common than the single word form (48k vs. 933k Google hits), and this is consistent with how Wikipedia refers to the other species of Taxodium. (I did leave the baldcypress leafroller as a single word, since this appears to be the most common form of the name for this insect).192.104.39.2 (talk) 17:55, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Changed to Bald-cypress per Flora of North America. Wikipedia is based on verifiable fact, not on personal dislike of scientific accuracy. Keteleeria (talk) 10:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Story my teacher told me! Hollow?
My teacher shared a story with me about him in his younger years. (Long story short) Him and his friends were looking for Sasquatch and ended up running away from a small man with a pointy head, and climbing inside a hallow bald cypress! The hole was big enough to hold him and his four other friends (big guys mind you)! He told our class some times an old bald cypress can develop a hallow inside and he had several of these hallow trees every where. I'm fortunate enough to go on an ecology trip where I get to see some next month!!!! SO EXCITED! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.217.78.207 (talk) 00:06, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Not really. Best Regards,   Barbara    ✐  ✉  14:14, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Saltwater tolerance
The saltwater tolerance seems to be caused by macorrhizae, see http://www.southeastern.edu/acad_research/depts/biol/dept_seminar/pdf/12a_kandalepas.pdf Please mention in article --Genetics4good (talk) 10:53, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Wetland Science and Management 2023
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