Have you laid awake at night wondering why some trees have knees, while others do not? Cypress knees are the peculiar things that grow up out of the roots of the bald cypress tree. These peculiar ...

Q: I love bald cypress trees! I have six in my small backyard. They have produced only a few knees. I planted two more in front. They have produced over a hundred knees over the years. I need to ...

Knees are knobby root growth that protrude above the ground surface on the cypress, usually in more moist conditions. They ...

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 ...

We have a bald cypress tree, and we were wondering if the needles from the cypress tree we are raking up now would be good for mulching. We know oak leaves are a good mulch, but are maple leaves also ...

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) ...

Oh, to be a mid-20th-century motorist, tooling through Florida, urged on by those roadside ciphers, scribbled against the sky in hand-cut wooden letters nailed to dead trees. They all led to a literal ...

Sometimes a bunch of cypress knees are just a bunch of cypress knees. Sometimes, they're something more. Ask Jane St. Amant, who spotted that "something more" one morning while sipping a cup of coffee ...

The autumnal glory of bald cypress trees can now be witnessed dry-shod, thanks to the urban forest diversification efforts of Meg Niederhofer while she was Gainesville’s arborist. These swamp denizens ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The 9News Alert Team got results on a problem that got buried in a bunch of phone calls and emails to City Hall. The East Baton Rouge City-Parish removed two cypress trees and ...

GONZALES — Cypress knees on the grounds of a condominium complex in Gonzales have broken about 50 city water meters, entangled themselves with sewer lines and, though picturesque, generally created ...