Scientific Name Taxodium ascendens Common Name Pond cypress

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Characteristics Family Cupressaceae--The Cypress Family Origin Native NC Plant Description Decidous tree Coastal Ecology The pond cypress is Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium, and it is distinguished by its very slender needles appressed to the stem, with branchlets ascending, or pointing towards the sky.

Trees of the Maritime Forest, Alice B. Russell Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University.
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