In collaboration with partner institutions, a team of scientists from Florida Atlantic University investigated 95 specimens ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

A new study of bald cypress trees reveals how ancient climate shifts, starting around 500 A.D., drastically shortened tree lifespans.

If you have ever walked along the water’s edge, you may have come across a grove of particular-looking trees. Their bark is ...

Drone footage of the Ghost Forest. On a brisk December day, David Stahle stands atop a ladder leaning against a bald cypress tree as wide as he is tall. Like a woodsy Doctor Who dropped into this ...

But when the subject shifts to deciduous trees, many species are stunning as they approach dormancy and again when they reawaken in late winter and early spring. Bald cypress trees, ranging ...

Bald cypress trees are native to North America, and are typically found within a range spanning from the Southern U.S. to the southern tip of Illinois. This type of tree is known for being as ...

I see that the New Jersey Heritage Program, which keeps track of these things, has decided that bald cypress, heretofore considered a non-native species, has been promoted to native on the ...

The way the legend goes, the enormous bald cypress grew from the ground 200 years ago when Louisville’s founder George Rogers Clark stuck his walking stick into the ground. That’s a "nice ...

I first heard of Cat Island Wildlife Refuge when I moved to Louisiana. People told me that the largest bald cypress tree in the world was there. I planned to go see it right away. That was 23 ...