Finely-textured leaves characterize this tree planted southeast of Music Hall. It grows best on deep, sandy loams with plenty of water and becomes chloritic where soils are too alkaline.
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Finely-textured leaves characterize this tree planted southeast of Music Hall. It grows best on deep, sandy loams with plenty of water and becomes chloritic where soils are too alkaline. | |||
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The baldcypress is native throughout the southeastern forest region from New Jersey to eastern Texas and up the Mississippi River Valley to southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. It grows in both uplands and bottomlands, but is more often found on wetter sites such as swamps, marshes and river bottoms where common hardwoods cannot survive. Leaves are deciduous (unlike most conifers) and the rich, russet-brown leaves fall attached to the 2- to 3-inch-long shoots. Wood is hard, heavy, straight-grained and easy to work. It is called "everlasting" wood as it is extremely durable when exposed to the elements. | ||||
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