Montezuma Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)

[Alicehunter2000]

Is this a Montezuma Cypress growing in Panama City? Looks different than the Bald cypress behind it. No knees.

Daughter for scale

Weepy habit.

[fastfeat]

Hmmm, could be. They're pretty tough to tell apart esp. when young. Does look a bit broader, looser than many T. distichum; not sure about those big needles tho. I thought the same thing on a group of young trees in Austin; turns out they were just fat, happy T. distichum. Keep an eye on it if you can...

[_Keith]

  On 7/31/2014 at 5:57 PM, Alicehunter2000 said:

Is this a Montezuma Cypress growing in Panama City? Looks different than the Bald cypress behind it. No knees.20140723_130252.jpg

Daughter for scale

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Weepy habit.

Awesome looking tree, whatever it is.

[DoomsDave]

Well, as [expletive] conifers go, they rock.

Cute daughter!

[Loxahatchee Adam]

Just going off the far away pics, the trees in the background look more like pond cypress, while the one in question looks like a bald cypress.

Bald cypress, from what I've seen around here, make much more stately-looking trees and carry more of a "Christmas tree" look/shape. They have the more feathery leaves/needles like in the close-up.

[Alicehunter2000]

Yes, you might be right.....just wishful thinking....still might try a Montezuma Cypress

[Alicehunter2000]

  On 8/14/2014 at 9:44 PM, Loxahatchee Adam said:

Just going off the far away pics, the trees in the background look more like pond cypress, while the one in question looks like a bald cypress.

Bald cypress, from what I've seen around here, make much more stately-looking trees and carry more of a "Christmas tree" look/shape. They have the more feathery leaves/needles like in the close-up.

Actually looked at the cultivated Bald Cypress and the leaves are much shorter than this plant.....still unsure of what it is? Maybe Dawn Redwood?

[_Keith]

  On 4/16/2015 at 7:30 PM, Alicehunter2000 said:

  On 8/14/2014 at 9:44 PM, Loxahatchee Adam said:

Just going off the far away pics, the trees in the background look more like pond cypress, while the one in question looks like a bald cypress.

Bald cypress, from what I've seen around here, make much more stately-looking trees and carry more of a "Christmas tree" look/shape. They have the more feathery leaves/needles like in the close-up.

Actually looked at the cultivated Bald Cypress and the leaves are much shorter than this plant.....still unsure of what it is? Maybe Dawn Redwood?

Dawn Redwood is deciduous. Does that help?

[edbrown_III]

Quote : "Montezuma Bald Cypress is found from the Rio Grande River south to Guatemala, although it is uncommon to rare in Texas. The main difference between Montezuma Bald Cypress and Baldcypress is that Montezuma Baldcypress is evergreen and the male flowers are borne in long racemes, whereas common Baldcypress is deciduous and the male flowers are in short clusters. It has been said that the extreme southern part of the state is the northernmost of its range and it has difficulty surviving winters farther north than San Antonio. However, there is one growing and doing very well in Plano Texas on the Frito National National Headquarters. See photo below"

I was wondering the same thing ---as I have both trees in the yard ---- mines about 18 feet talll and it looks so much like a Bald cycpress

[GeneAZ]

They get big.

The town boasts several extremely large and ancient Montezuma Cypress trees. The largest – The Tule Tree – dwarfs the town’s church and is more than 2,000 years old. This tree has a circumference of 54 meters, the largest girth of any tree on the planet. Imagine this tree was a sapling at the time when the Zapotec civilization at Monte Albán was flourishing!

[edbrown_III]

these trees look so very different froma Cypress in old age --- its just in the youth that they look so similar. I reckon I gotta nuther 1990 years before mine gets to look like that --- cant wait

Best regads

Ed

[Gtlevine]

I love this tree. I just planted my Montezuma Cypress last month and it is growing nicely.

Gary

[Tropicdoc]

David, youll have to see if it goes "bald" this winter

[redbeard917]

There's a decent size Dawn Redwood on the FSU campus.

[fastfeat]

  On 4/16/2015 at 7:30 PM, Alicehunter2000 said:

  On 8/14/2014 at 9:44 PM, Loxahatchee Adam said:

Just going off the far away pics, the trees in the background look more like pond cypress, while the one in question looks like a bald cypress.

Bald cypress, from what I've seen around here, make much more stately-looking trees and carry more of a "Christmas tree" look/shape. They have the more feathery leaves/needles like in the close-up.

Actually looked at the cultivated Bald Cypress and the leaves are much shorter than this plant.....still unsure of what it is? Maybe Dawn Redwood?

Not dawn redwood.

[BigFrond]

  On 4/20/2015 at 11:07 PM, GeneAZ said:

They get big.

The town boasts several extremely large and ancient Montezuma Cypress trees. The largest – The Tule Tree – dwarfs the town’s church and is more than 2,000 years old. This tree has a circumference of 54 meters, the largest girth of any tree on the planet. Imagine this tree was a sapling at the time when the Zapotec civilization at Monte Albán was flourishing!

Holy ministroni batman! That's freaking huge!

[Alicehunter2000]

Optical illusion....an old photography trick....they used small children to make that tree look big.

[Pando]

  On 4/20/2015 at 11:07 PM, GeneAZ said:

They get big.

The town boasts several extremely large and ancient Montezuma Cypress trees. The largest – The Tule Tree – dwarfs the town’s church and is more than 2,000 years old. This tree has a circumference of 54 meters, the largest girth of any tree on the planet. Imagine this tree was a sapling at the time when the Zapotec civilization at Monte Albán was flourishing!

That is one big damn tree