Bald Cypress vs. Dawn Redwood??
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Comments (15)Bald cypress' autumn foliage assumes a rusty-brown color at best. Tamaracks (larches, Larix spp.) are another deciduous conifer that does have yellow fall color. Young tamaracks are similar in appearance to bald cypress and dawn redwood. Being someone in a colder climate, I can't speak for dawn redwood; it isn't hardy here in Minnesota. But bald cypress does just fine. I planted mine ten years ago as a six foot tree in a backyard ditch. It is now 30-35 feet tall and starting to srow those knobs in the surrounding soil. And I'm delighted by the butressed trunk, too. Bald cypress is one of my favorite trees....See MoreDawn Redwood vs Bald Cypress
Comments (63)Beng, Initially, I thought it may be Taxodium mucronatum. I asked around. A few thought it looked like T. mucronatum. A director of university arboretum liked its form and asked for cones. He noted that the size of seeds fall in between mucronatum and distichum. The key difference between these two species is that mucronatum stays green about a month longer (starts growth early and can retain green foliage significantly longer into late fall/early winter. Even most of winter if it is mild enough. However, this one is drops its foliage at the same time as other bald cypress trees so who knows? I wish I could find out where it came from. I haven't seen any bald cypress like that....See MoreDawn Redwood growth questions.
Comments (18)Argh. No way to edit posts, is there? Anyway, I took it up for a bit tonight to check out the roots. It was pretty root bound, but most of the roots were either thick, spongy, and pliable, or fibrous. I'd actually say the majority were fibrous. There were some thicker, woodier roots, but not all that many, and only a few had started wrapping around the pot from what I could tell. Some were at oddish angles, but growing mostly normally. As for the ones that were wrapping, I cut those back to where it looked like they were straigtening out, which wasn't too far. Other than that, I just used the guidelines about making one-inch cuts down the side of the rootball, then tried to shake stuff loose a bit. Don't know how much it'll help or hurt, really. From what I could tell, it didn't look like there were any thick, wrapping roots growing near the trunk, in any case....See MoreBald Cypress vs. Dawn Redwood
Comments (15)Botann: I don't see a lot of baldcypress, except as ornamentals here and there. But because it is one of my favorite trees--much more so than dawn redwood, I pay a lot of attention when I do see them. I have never seen any of these trees damaged by any kind of storm. Something I never really noticed until recently, so I am not sure if it is a usual or alwsys kind of thing, but the last baldcypress I saw had a kind of regular U shaped joint between the trunk and its branches, and some buttressing beneath. This may explain one aspect of the trees strength, But as I said, I had not really focused on this before. In the future I will look for this to see how much it may be a general characteristic of these trees' growth. I have three young ones in my yard that I planted 5 years ago, and another thing i have noticed is an unusual degree of flexibility in the trunks--they are more flexible than all the other trees I have planted that have about the same diameter, and that is a lot. Maybe that has something to do with this tree's resistance to damage. Well, I guess I am saying that maybe it is not just a matter of time until your tree suffers damage. And, by the way, I have not noticed the tendency for these trees to develop multiple leaders. I know it happens, and I think one of those big old ones in DC has a double trunk, but it hasn't split yet. --Spruce...See Morewhaas_5a
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