Did you know that the Bald Cypress Tree is a water-loving tree? Daggerwing Nature Center Naturalist Lila Capra takes us through some cool facts about the Bald Cypress Tree, including how it’s beneficial for both humans and wildlife!
Did you know that the Bald Cypress Tree is a water-loving tree? Daggerwing Nature Center Naturalist Lila Capra takes us through some cool facts about the Bald Cypress Tree, including how it’s beneficial for both humans and wildlife!
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The knees may actually be a leftover adaptation to discourage webbed-foot dinosaurs from eating the tree – or at least that’s the least debunked hypothesis we have at this time. The knees are probably not pneumatophores at all, as they lack aerenchyma and lenticles. The mechanical stability hypothesis is also brought into question since cypress in deeper water actually lack knees.
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