Descriptive Information
- Field
Marks: "Leaves green, typically spreading from
their supporting shoots, thus featherlike in appearance. Mature
trees distinguished from mature pond cypress by the featherlike leaves
and by the short shoots spreading from their supporting twigs."
- Size:
"Tall, straight deciduous tree to about 40 m in height."
- General
Habitat: "Grows along fresh-water channels and
in swamps."
- Geographic
Range: "Found in or along flowing water; generally
statewide except for the southernmost counties and the Keys."
- Ecosystems
Where Observed: Saw Grass Marsh, Cypress Dome, Marl
Prairie
- Other
Information: "Older trees often exhibit a large
buttressed base. They often have an epiphyte, the bromeliad
growing on the tree."
- References:
(Nelson, 1994, p.127)
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