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unusual facts about Bald cypress



Atchafalaya Basin

The Atchafalaya Basin, the surrounding plain of the river, is filled with bayous, bald cypress swamps, and marshes that give way to more brackish estuarine conditions and end in the Spartina grass marshes, near and at where it meets the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Munson

Cypress and willow trees line the lake, and egrets, Wood Storks, and Limpkin are often found foraging along the shoreline, often on invasive apple snails.

Walter Hunnewell Arboretum

The collection of specimen trees and shrubs include towering American White and English Oaks, lindens, tulip trees, bald cypress, and Chinese Golden Larch, as well as different species and cultivars of azaleas, lilacs, viburnums, hollies, weeping cherries and rhododendrons.


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Taxodium distichum

Insects such as the cypress flea beetle and the bald cypress leafroller (Archips goyerana) (closely related to the fruit tree leafroller) can seriously damage trees by destroying leaves, cones or the bark.