Taxodium ascendens David Geiger The flowers are the surprise:

The flowers are the surprise: clusters of small

The trailing forms have long been prized for softening the hard edges of terraces and stone in the old hillside gardens of Italy and Spain

because every part of this cycad is highly toxic when eaten

is why the species is so seldom offered and so highly prized

Taxodium ascendens David Geiger The flowers are the surprise:Pond cypress is the quieter of the two native bald cypresses, a deciduous conifer closely related to the more widespread Taxodium distichum but smaller, tidier, and distinct in leaf. Where bald cypress wears soft, feather like foliage, pond cypress carries fine, scale like leaves pressed close and ascending along the shoots, giving the young tree a narrow, almost columnar, pyramidal outline. The name Taxodium means yew like, for the foliage, and