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THE BALD CYPRESS {Taxodium distichum) 



The base of the trunk flares abruptly into lobed buttresses. Pointed "knees" rise from the long horizontal roots of old 

 trees. They are supposed to be means of aeration to the inundated roots. The leafy, lateral twigs are deciduous. Cypress 

 •wamps are found in the maritime regions of the Southeastern states 



