. Common forest trees of Georgia: how to know them. A pocket manual. Trees -- Georgia. CYPRESS {Taxodiiim disHchum Rich.) TTIIE cypress, or bald cypress, is a tree found exclusively in deep swamps which are usually flooded for long periods at a time, and on wet stream banks and bottomlands in the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain and westward. Its straight trunk with numer- ous ascending branches, and narrow conical outline makes the tree one of considerable beauty. In old. CYPRESS One-balf natural size. age, the tree generally has a broad fluted or but- tressed base, a smooth slowly tapering trunk
. Common forest trees of Georgia: how to know them. A pocket manual. Trees -- Georgia. CYPRESS {Taxodiiim disHchum Rich.) TTIIE cypress, or bald cypress, is a tree found exclusively in deep swamps which are usually flooded for long periods at a time, and on wet stream banks and bottomlands in the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain and westward. Its straight trunk with numer- ous ascending branches, and narrow conical outline makes the tree one of considerable beauty. In old. CYPRESS One-balf natural size. age, the tree generally has a broad fluted or but- tressed base, a smooth slowly tapering trunk and a broad, open, flat top of a few heavy branches and numerous small branchlets. The original-growth timber attained heights of 80 to 130 feet and diam- eters of 5 to 10 feet. The bark is silvery to cinnamon-red and finely divided by numerous longitudinal fissures. The leaves are about one-half to three-fourths of an inch in length, arranged in feather-like fashion along two sides of small branchlets, which fall in the autumn with the leaves still attached; or they are scale-like and much shorter, light green, and sometimes silvery below. The fruit is a rounded cone, or "ball," about one inch in diameter, consisting of thick irregular scales. The wood is light, soft, easily worked, varies in color from a light sapwood to dark-brown heart- wood, and is particularly durable in contact with the soil. Hence it is in demand for exterior trim of buildings, greenhouse planking, boat and ship building, shingles, posts, poles and crossties. 13. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mattoon, Wilbur R. (Wilbur Reed), 1875-1941; Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. Athens, Ga.
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