With the waters high in the cypress areas of our county, now is the perfect time to see the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) ...

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 ...

Scientists documenting the ages of bald cypress along the Black River in southeastern North Carolina have discovered an ancient tree whose annual growth rings show it to be at least 2,624 years old.

Researchers have discovered an ancient forest of bald cypress trees along a North Carolina river, documenting some trees older than than 2,000 years old. One of the bald cypress trees along the Black ...

On Thursday, the Battleship North Carolina and UNCW students took steps towards preserving the state's natural history.

The bald cypress is the calling card of Louisiana's swamps, with its "knees" jutting up through the still water and moss hanging from its branches. But soil subsidence, storm surges and saltwater ...

Researchers have identified a group of ancient bald cypress trees which are over 2,000 years old in the forested wetlands of North Carolina's Black River. Staggeringly, the scientists found that one ...

Perry-lee West, likes everything about a bald cypress — from the way the tree looks in the fall, to the way it reproduces, from mysteries surrounding its knees, to the way those knees sequester soil ...

In a past column I listed the bald cypress as one of the uncommon trees native to Indiana. I wrote so much about where it is found in our state that I ran out of space before I could describe what ...