Red maples have a 75-year lifespan, while bald cypress trees can live for centuries. Note: Be sure to purchase locally grown plants, not specimens cultivated in Northern states.

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 ...

Bald cypress has been around for a long time — something like 160 million years. Skip to Article. ... The only other tree which it can be confused with is the Asian dawn redwood, ...

These trees are known as Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum). The Bald Cypress is a large, slow-growing, and long-lived tree. It can reach heights of up to 120 feet with trunks up to 7 feet in diameter.

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 ...

Bald Cypress root knees are shown growing in the shallow waters of a lake. MyLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty. Q: My bald cypress tree is sending up huge roots above the ground.

When a bald cypress is left to its own devices, as this one has been, it can thrive for 500 or even 600 years. "For the most part with trees in this age class, you just have to leave them alone ...

Rob Nelson won the prize of “Potential State Champion Tree” at the ReLeaf Michigan’s Big Tree Hunt. Nelson found a bald cypress tree in Grand Rapids, measuring 163 inches in circumference.

Don’t you wish you knew then what you know now? Speaking from experience, when I first began studying plants, people would ask me lots of gardening or landscaping questions. Did ...

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 years ago — and I finally made the relatively short trip to see it last week.

This bald cypress tree is 83 feet tall, 17 feet in diameter and is estimated to be about 1,500 years old. For reference, ...