Bald Cypress

Description:

Large deciduous tress with needles 3/8 to 3/4 inches long. Leaves are dull light green above and whitish beneath. Featherlike, flat, soft, and flexable. Leaves turn brown and shed with twig in the fall. The seed cones are green maturing gray-brown, globular, 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter.

Habitat:

Very wet, swampy soil of river banks and flood plain lakes that are sometimes submerged.

Notes:

The main trunks are surrounded by cypress knees (pictures 2 and 3). I've seen these for months and first thought it was some type of fungi.