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Taxodium distichum (Swamp Cypress; Yellow-cypress; Bald-cypress; Cypress; Gulf Cypress; Red-cypress; Southern Cypress; White-cypress)

Synonyms:
Language: Chi; Cze; Dut; Fre; Ger; Hrv, Srp; Hun; Ita; Por; Rus; Slo; Spa; Spa (from Nahuatl)

Wikipedia Abstract

Taxodium distichum (bald cypress, baldcypress, bald-cypress, cypress, southern-cypress, white-cypress, tidewater red-cypress, Gulf-cypress, red-cypress, or swamp cypress) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae that grows on saturated and seasonally inundated soils in the lowlands of the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal Plains of the United States.
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Infraspecies

Taxodium distichum var. distichum (Gulf Cypress)
Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium (Black-cypress) (Attributes)
Taxodium distichum var. imbricatum

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  Low
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Carbon Capture [1]  Medium-Low
Shade Percentage [1]  83 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Medium-High
Wind Reduction [1]  Medium
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Janka Hardness [3]  570 lbf (259 kgf) Very Soft
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Specific Gravity [4]  0.46
Structure [2]  Tree
Usage [2]  The bark has been used to make cordage; Wood - light, soft, not strong, moderately hard, easily worked, straight grained, very durable in damp soil, takes a good polish. It weighs 28lb per cubic foot; The wood is not given to excessive warping or shrinking;
Height [2]  98 feet (30 m)
Width [2]  26 feet (8 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate
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Protected Areas

Emblem of

Louisiana

Predators

Crisicoccus taxodii (baldcypress mealybug)[5]
Diaspidiotus taxodii (bald cypress scale)[5]
Iridopsis pergracilis (cypress looper)[6]
Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa (cypress twig gall midge)[7]
Taxomyia taxi[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acmaeodera ornata[9]
Chalcophora virginiensis (Sculptured Pine Borer)[9]
Trachykele lecontei[9]

Range Map

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 4Forest Inventory and Analysis DB version 5.1, May 4, 2013, U.S. Forest Service
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Anacamptodes pergracilis (Hulst) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geometridae), Wayne N. Dixon, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, July 2003
♦ 7Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa (Osten Sacken) (Insecta: Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Celina Gomez and Russell F Mizell III, University of Florida, April 2008; Last Revised January 2013
♦ 8Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0