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I just looked that tree up. We are just north of its native range as its northern limit is southern Delaware. Turns out that tree is a deciduous conifer and is native only to the southern US. Gives you an idea of the cold that can impact North America cause being a southern species even native to Florida it is not evergreen. But you probably already knew all that.
Here are some bald cypress pictures here I took this morning. The orange colors didn't show up that well in the photos.
Some photos from the past week from my walk to uni. Lots of trees almost bare now after a windy week, some still quite green. There are quite a lot of evergreen pines around here so it remains quite green during winter which I like!
Some photos from the past week from my walk to uni. Lots of trees almost bare now after a windy week, some still quite green. There are quite a lot of evergreen pines around here so it remains quite green during winter which I like!
Love that green grass! Green grass in winter goes so far to brighten up the landscape imo. I can't stand the look of dead brown hay grass in winter. Makes a place look so cold, even if the averages aren't.
Looks similar around here. I'd say about 40% of trees are now bare, 40% still shedding leaves, and 20% still fully leafed and mostly green with some yellow.
Love that green grass! Green grass in winter goes so far to brighten up the landscape imo. I can't stand the look of dead brown hay grass in winter. Makes a place look so cold, even if the averages aren't.
Yeah, with blue skies it can look OK here in winter! Shame that we are usually mostly cloudy though. December 2010 I remember the grass went brown here but that's the last time I remember it happening.. you can tell from the photos that the grass has just been cut and it is still growing even though we are in the last week of November!
Love that green grass! Green grass in winter goes so far to brighten up the landscape imo. I can't stand the look of dead brown hay grass in winter. Makes a place look so cold, even if the averages aren't.
For me, it depends on the ratio of bare trees to green grass. I'd rather have brown grass and evergreen trees (like the eastern part of my region), rather than green grass and too many bare trees.
I just looked that tree up. We are just north of its native range as its northern limit is southern Delaware. Turns out that tree is a deciduous conifer and is native only to the southern US. Gives you an idea of the cold that can impact North America cause being a southern species even native to Florida it is not evergreen. But you probably already knew all that.
Species of Taxodium occur in the southern part of the North American continent and are deciduous in the north and semi-evergreen to evergreen in the south. They are large trees, reaching 100–150 ft (30–46 m) tall and 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) (exceptionally 11 m or 36 ft) trunk diameter. The needle-like leaves, 0.5–2 cm (0.20–0.79 in) long, are borne spirally on the shoots, twisted at the base so as to appear in two flat rows on either side of the shoot. The cones are globose, 2–3.5 cm (0.79–1.38 in) diameter, with 10-25 scales, each scale with 1-2 seeds; they are mature in 7–9 months after pollination, when they disintegrate to release the seeds. The male (pollen) cones are produced in pendulous racemes, and shed their pollen in early spring. Taxodium species grow pneumatophores, or cypress roots, when growing in or beside water; these are woody projections which rise above the water and are said to help carry oxygen to the root systems.
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