Consider this a cautionary tale, in the best sense of things. I first heard of Cat Island Wildlife Refuge when I moved to Louisiana. People told me that the largest bald cypress tree in the world was ...

The bald cypress tree (Taxodium distichum) has been quietly standing sentinel to centuries of ecological change in the murky wetlands of the American Southeast. These towering trees are some of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bald cypress trees are native to North America, and are typically found within a range spanning from the Southern U.S. to the ...

The way the legend goes, the enormous bald cypress grew from the ground 200 years ago when Louisville’s founder George Rogers Clark stuck his walking stick into the ground. That’s a "nice story," ...

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. - Karen Joy Fowler Author Karen Joy Fowler has it right. When it comes to "immortal" trees in Illinois and the Eastern U.S., none have ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Tree huggers, you’re going to need longer arms. A Grand Rapids man may have found one of the biggest trees in the state. Rob Nelson won the prize of “Potential State Champion Tree” ...

I see that the New Jersey Heritage Program, which keeps track of these things, has decided that bald cypress, heretofore considered a non-native species, has been promoted to native on the strength of ...

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 I as a first-year ...

Guys whose follicles are dwindling on a daily basis probably don’t think bald is beautiful. But when the subject shifts to deciduous trees, many species are stunning as they approach dormancy and ...

Maybe next year it will be as tall as the school building. A fourth grader speculated to Aiken Mayor Rick Osbon on Friday as he was talking to the pupils about the bald cyprus tree they were planting ...