cypress tree trees have been around for M of year . They typically know for hundreds of year . They tolerate out among the tree of the planet for their size , length of service , mantrap and resistance to piss rot . Many specimens reach 100 feet in height , growing 24 inches in a single class , and have trunks with 20 - foot diameters . Cypress Tree have few insect or diseases problems and are tolerant of mellow winds and shabu storms .

Deciduous Conifers

Cypress trees are both deciduous and conifers . A conifer is a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree whose seed is a retinal cone . vulgar cone - deliver trees like the spruce or pine tree are evergreen , meaning they do not lose their needle , which are their leafage . Deciduous trees are those that slough their leaf in the autumn , such as oak , maples and fruit trees . Cypress Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree have needles for leave but molt them in the decline , nominate them deciduous conifers .

Trees with Knees

Cypress trees are the only trees with knees . The stifle are actually arboreous growths that sprout around the tree at a distance of several infantry . The phenomenon fall out where cypress tree tree are remain firm in swampy precondition . While the purpose of the knees has yet to be discovered , the University of Florida reports that some scientist believe they occur in sloughy areas only , because they affix oxygen supply to deluge root systems .

Versatile Terrain Growers

Bald cypress trees are primarily found in and along water such as streams , rivers , swamps and lake shores . The pool cypress live in and around still amniotic fluid such as pool provide . Both types of trees can be plant and will thrive in nearly any case of dirt and do just as well off from body of water as they do near it .

Cypress Tress in the United States

There 14 specimen of cypress twist found around the world but only three grow in the United States . The bald cypress is predominant in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains spanning from Texas to Delaware and as far north as the southern tip of Illinois . The pool cypress tree mirrors the denuded cypress ’s range with the exclusion that its northernmost reach is Virginia . The Montezuma cypress tree originated in Mexico and has spread along the Pacific coast .

Uses for Cypress

Cypress Mrs. Henry Wood has been highly measure through the centuries . Its longevity and resistance to rot have made it a sought - after material . Giant canoes and water pipe were some of the thing people constructed with it in the 1700s . later on , it was used to make roofing shingles , railway line ties , ladder , fence posts and siding for homes . Today , cypress is still harvest and more than 50 percent is used as baseball bat while about 47 percent is chipped and sold as mulch .

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