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Bald Cypress Knees

Taxodium distichum.

Description:

Pnuematophores.

Habitat:

Bay lake.

7 Comments

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 9 years ago

Great work, Rosa Maria. This was a tricky one!!

Rosa Maria
Rosa Maria 9 years ago

That is a Bald Cypress: http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/4h/tre.... :) Taxodium distichum. Yay!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 9 years ago

I uploaded leaves and trunk. (pic 2 and 3) Hope that solves the case.

Rosa Maria
Rosa Maria 9 years ago

Cool! The leaves should be enough to see if it is Bald or Pond.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 9 years ago

I did take a pic of the trunk and leaves.Leaves do look like cypress. Never linked the two though.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 9 years ago

Thanks Rosa! I knew you would rescue this PN spotter :)

Rosa Maria
Rosa Maria 9 years ago

Hi Hema, I believe the picture is of a Cypress species' knees (knobs). They are too big to be that of a Black Mangrove. Other than that I am not sure which of the two species it might be. :)

HemaShah
Spotted by
HemaShah

Florida, USA

Spotted on May 21, 2014
Submitted on Jun 5, 2014

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