Taxodium ascendens Brongniart
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Detail
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Botanical Name
- Taxodium ascendens Brongniart
- Common Name
- Pondcypress
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Taxodium ascendens Brongn.
- Comments
- The first bona-fide trees of this species in Virginia were found at South Quay (Suffolk City) by J.F. Townsend in 2002, where only 3 individuals exist. A large stand of trees was discovered in 2016, approximately 2.5 km northwest of the South Quay site, in Southampton County.
- Habitat
- Cut-over streamhead pocosin at Suffolk City site; non-riverine swamp/pocosin at Southampton County site, where it grows mixed with Chamaecyparis thyoides in a shrubby woodland with small to medium-sized hardwoods. Rare, s. Coastal Plain; known from one site in sw. Suffolk city and another in adjacent Southampton County.
- Native Status
- Native
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