The cypress knees function not unlike the barb on a fish hook. When fierce winds push on the tree's trunk, there is exerted a distinct pull on the tree's support roots.

Thanks to the actions of one woman, it's now reduced to a stump. ... It was considered the largest and oldest bald cypress tree in the world, standing at around 120 feet tall.

Before that point, bald cypress trees in the region regularly lived for more than 470 years. But after this period, their average lifespan fell sharply to 186 years.

The Witch Tree, a cypress that fell in 1964, reminded visitors of a witch flying away from the twisted trunk on a broomstick and gave rise to ghost stories over the years.

They are now about 60 feet tall, with trunk diameters over a foot, and they have produced a few “knees” along the water’s edge. For information about the Gloucester County Nature Club, see ...

Bald cypress trees can grow 150 feet tall and, like trees in the Amazon rainforest, ... The second has a trunk that divides into two 50 feet up, then spirals together like giant flamingos.

This particular example has a trunk that measures 4 meters in diameter (around 13 feet), and is 28 meters tall and probably started its life at the time when humans were first inventing writing.

According to the University of Mississippi Museum, the tree is 76 feet tall and the trunk has a diameter of 22 feet, 7 inches. ... The ancient cypress trees at Sky Lake.

The Charleston Parks Conservancy removed 33 bald cypress trees from the Beaufain Street side of Colonial Lake Park in Charleston as part of revitalization work.