The largest bald cypress tree in the country can be found at Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge near St. Francisville, Louisiana. This bald cypress tree is 83 feet tall, 17 feet in diameter and ...

People told me that the largest bald cypress tree in the world was there. I planned to go see it right away. That was 23 years ago — and I finally made the relatively short trip to see it last week.

Nelson found a bald cypress tree in Grand Rapids, measuring 163 inches in circumference. In all, 18 trees submitted for the contest qualified as new potential state champion trees.

It was considered the largest and oldest bald cypress tree in the world, standing at around 120 feet tall. To put that into perspective, that’s even higher than three standard school buses ...

Bald cypress has been around for a long time — something like 160 million years. ... It’s one of the largest trees in New Jersey. Closer to home, I’ve seen several trees, ...

Bald cypress trees can grow 150 feet tall and, like trees in the Amazon rainforest, ... It is the largest remaining tract of old-growth cypress and tupelo forest in the United States.

The Senator was 125 to 127 feet tall, with a trunk diameter of 17.5 feet, and it was estimated to be at least 3,500 years old, the oldest and largest Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) and one of ...

Bald cypress trees are native to North America, and are typically found within a range spanning from the Southern U.S. to the southern tip of Illinois. This type of tree is known for being as ...

People told me that the largest bald cypress tree in the world was there. I planned to go see it right away. That was 23 years ago — and I finally made the relatively short trip to see it last week.