9-13-04 Id

[Eric_E]

This tree was planted 3 years ago. It will get much taller.

 

[Eric_E]

Close up

 

[Mark Chisholm]

This one looks a little tough for me to be sure from the photo. I hate trying to ID smaller trees. I am always seeing the larger ones when we work on them.


Anyway, how about Taxodium distichum (sp?) Bald cypress

 

[Eric_E]

Mark,

Is that your final answer? /forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I'd like to poll the audience!

 

[theXman]

definitely bald cypress.

I planted one 2 years ago in my yard. Mine gets these bluish galls on the needles sometimes though, I pull them off or else they increase in number. tiny wasp maybe?

I think I'm going to put an island in my pond and plant one or two of these on it, i think the knees would be neat.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

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I think I'm going to put an island in my pond and plant one or two of these on it, i think the knees would be neat.

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That is a really cool idea. I saw some at Silver Springs in Florida that were said to be over 500 years old with knees everywhere. Cool trees!

 

[Roger_Barnett]

If it isn't bald cypress, it is a dawn redwood, metasequoia glptostroboides. The two are close cousins, and look a lot alike.

 

[Eric_E]

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If it isn't bald cypress, it is a dawn redwood, metasequoia glptostroboides. The two are close cousins, and look a lot alike.

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Roger is right, the two look alot alike.

Bald Cypress or Dawn Redwood,

Which is which? /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Here's a closeup of leaves of one or the other. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Eric,
Are you toying withus? That shot looks more like a Dawn Redwood. Are they the same tree or what?

 

[Eric_E]

Mark,

Two different trees, which one is which?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Alright smarty pants, I'll play along. I'll stick to my first choice and say that the first two are of a Bald cypress and the close-up shot is a Dawn redwood. Well? /forum/images/graemlins/obsessed.gif

 

[jimmyq]

first two Taxodium distichum, last one Metasequoia glyptostroboides . Like Mark said. In age I think that the root flare of the Metasequoia is a distinguishing factor.

 

[Eric_E]

That's correct, Bald Cypress (this one is the cultivar 'Shawnee Brave') and the later one is Dawn Redwood.

The identifing characteristic for me is the leaf arrangement of these two trees.
I worked with a guy years ago that explained it to me this way. His wife's name was Dawn and she was the opposite sex and Dawn Redwood leaves are opposite. It always stuck in my mind, even Twenty years later.