Q. I have three 12-year-old bald cypresses in a relatively small front yard. Knees are appearing. What kind of risk is there to the house foundation? One longer, exposed root is close to the house. -- ...

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 ...

The bald cypress flourishes in southern swamplands. Bald cypress "knees" are woody, knobby projects that fan out from the tree's trunk. A cone-bearing tree called bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) ...

A question for Dan Gill: We are having a discussion about cypress trees. It seems that some produce knees and others do not. Is this correct? -- Henry Answer: Yes, that is correct. Whether or not a ...

Even its name is off-putting. Regardless, it stands tall as the rock star of Delaware's freshwater wetlands in Sussex County, home of the northernmost natural stand of bald cypress in the country. And ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q • My wife and I visited your garden recently. In the Japanese Garden there is an area where there are some cypress knees (I ...

Knees are knobby root growth that protrude above the ground surface on the cypress, usually in more moist conditions. They are like the stalagmites for plants and a terrible tripping hazard. In the ...

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 ...

About five dozen bald cypress trees in Hammonds Ferry that have either caused or threaten to cause property damage — and about which citizens had made several formal complaints 18 months ago — will ...

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 ...