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Taxodium ascendens

Pond Cypress

Pronunciation
tax-OH-dium a-CEN-dens
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Family
Genus
Nativity

Found throughout the Southern United States

Growth Habit

Narrowly conical or columnar with spreading branches and erect branchlets; a deciduous conifer.

Hardiness
5
Culture

Grows well in sandy wet woods and found on the southern coastal plain.

Landscape Use

Grows well in wet areas and often found in parks near lakes and ponds

Foliage

Much like T. distichum, identifiable because needles point upward; gold fall color; deciduous conifer

Bark

Light brown and furrowed, if in water it will develop knees

Flower

Monoecious; male flowers ovoid, forming terminal and drooping panicles; female flowers scattered near the ends of branches of the previous year, sub-globose; male flowers appear as slender, pendulous catkins (4 to 5 inches long, branched, spikose panicle), March-April.

Fruit

Cones are globular and obovoid

Propagation

Seed, grafting. Seeds require 90 days of cold statification.

Pests
Mites and galls.
Cultivars

'Prairie Sentinel' - 60 feet tall and 10 feet wide, soft, fine-textured foliage, does well on upland soil and moist sites.

'Carolyn' - Rapid growth, uniformity in branching, pyramidal habit.

'Homer' - Bright green summer foliage needles longer and densely set, curled, feather-like, russet-gold fall color.

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