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Sumpfzypressen

:	Resinous wood plants (Pinophyta)
:	Pinopsida
:	(Pinales)
:	(Cupressaceae)
:	Taxodioideae
:	Sumpfzypressen

Scientific name

Taxodium

L.C. Rich.

Taxodium distichum
Taxodium mucronatum

The Sumpfzypressen (Taxodium) is one from that the (Cupressaceae), within the resinous wood plants (Pinophyta). This kind covers only two kinds, of which one is nearly evergreen summer-green and the other one. Their circulation area is limited to the southern USA, Mexico and Guatemala. In Europe the genuine Sumpfzypresse (Taxodium distichum) in park plants is to be found by the two kinds.

In earlier earth-history times the kind was further common. Since their wood is very desired in forestry, its existence decrease/go back.

Systematics

One differentiates the following two kinds with respect to the kind:

Genuine Sumpfzypresse (Taxodium distichum): there is two and a culture form.
Mexican Sumpfzypresse or Montezuma Zypresse (Taxodium mucronatum)

Mexican Sumpfzypresse or Montezuma Zypresse (Taxodium mucronatum) this copy - after master diameter the thickest tree of the world - is located in the locality Santa Maria del Tule in the province Oaxaca, Mexico and becomes "El Gigante" (splinter: the giant) or "tree mentioned by Tule".

Branch of the upright Sumpfzypresse (Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium); the named-giving upright side branches are to be seen clear.

Trunk and crust of the Sumpfzypresse in the Botani garden Berlin.