Bald Cypress Tree Knees

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The knees only happen when it grows in wet areas. On dry land they don't usually have knees sticking out of the ground. The knees is how it breaths when there in water.
 
I have Bald Cypress trees on two of our properties... none have ever produced the knees. The only ones I have ever seen do that in this state were right on the edge of a creek that was prone to flooding.
 
That is where I see the knees. If the tree is in a yard with reasonably good soil and is not saturated, I have seen plenty of bald cypress that are not sending up knees.

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We've got a pretty good sized bald cypress in the yard here, no knees. There's also a long row of large BC in a nearby town ... no knees in either case. I get the feeling they only put up knees in swamps, or underwater, or places with a very high water table, to get oxygen to the roots and/or to help buttress the tree in weak (wet) soil.
 

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