Taxodium ascendens

• Grow your own Pond Cypress, a swamp-loving, knee-producing tree from the southern U.S.
  
• Bulk tree deal for landscaping projects, windbreaks, restoration and reforestation work, and other large-scale plantings
  
• Seed-grown on California's Redwood Coast
• Transplanting and care instructions included
  
  

Nursery Note: Please be aware that these trees are semi-deciduous, meaning when grown in colder climates they lose their leaves each autumn. As temperatures cool in the fall, the trees begin their seasonal transformation with brightening foliage and colorful, falling leaves. As bare as they may appear without foliage, the trees benefit greatly from their annual winter’s rest, and will awaken in the springtime to readorn themselves with lush new foliage.

Highlights

	Moisture High
	Cold Hardiness -15°F
	Light Full Sun / Partial Shade
	Size 60 – 120' tall / 15 – 30' spread
	Lifespan 1,200 yrs
	Growth Rate Fast Growing
	Drought Tolerance High
	Wind Resistance High

Tree Story

About Pond Cypress

From the U.S. Forest Service:

"Cypress is a large-sized, native, deciduous, conifer, frequently 100 to 120 feet (30-37 m) in height.  It is slow growing and very long-lived. Individual trees have been reported up to 1,200 years old in Georgia and South Carolina.  In the forest, bald cypress typically has a broad, irregular crown, often draped in curtains and streams of gray Spanish moss. The trunks of older trees are massive, tapering, and particularly when growing in swamps, buttressed at the base. The deciduous leaves are linear and flat with blades mostly spreading, fastened alternately around the twig. Cypress is monoecious with its male and female flowers forming slender tassel-like structures near the edge of the branchlets. The bark of cypress is usually quite thin and fibrous with an interwoven pattern of narrow flat ridges and narrow furrows.  Cypress develops a taproot as well as horizontal roots that lie just below the surface and extend 20 to 50 feet (6-15 m) before bending down.

Knees: Cypress knees are a unique polymorphic structure of cypress trees. They start out as small swellings on the upper surface of a horizontal root and then protrude above the mud and water providing extra needed support. They vary in height from 1 to 12 feet (0.3-3.7 m) depending on the level of the water."

Size Chart

Seedling Size Chart: Medium

Due to the dynamic nature of actively growing trees, as well as the tremendous variation between species’ growth rates, we rely on the cubic volume of a seedling’s root mass to determine its “size” (Small / Medium / Large / XL). Within each size there is minor variance — the dimensions provided here represent the category minimum. If exact measurements are essential, please contact us about current stock.