Bald Cypress (Taxodium Distichum) -- 🍂 Autumn Edition 🍂

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The bald cypress whose botanical name is taxodium distichum is a deciduous conifer in the cupressaceae family.

It is also called swamp cypress, white cypress, tidewater red cypress, gulf cypress and red cypress, and is a slow-growing, long-lived and large tree up to 10–40 m tall.

The leaves are needle-like, simple, alternately growing, green, linear, with a whole margin.

These needles will fall every winter, and grow new in the spring.

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