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Title
Cypress Knees Akilter
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A fallen cypress tree and knees all akilter. Photographed while kayaking in the Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge.
This cypress tree had fallen over pulling up the rootball, which on a cypress tree is composed of the tree's knees. This was particularly striking because I had never seen this before where the knees were all pulled up.
Bald cypress trees are slow-growing and can be found throughout most of Florida in lakes, swamps, floodplains and along streams. The range extends north to New York and west into Texas, mostly in the coastal plain, and up the Mississippi River drainage into southern Illinois.
The trunk of bald cypress is spreading at the base with a deep tap root and spreading roots that send up knees extending out of the soil and water. The purpose of these knees is not entirely clear, but they are believed to help both with support and gas exchange.
The vast cypress forests of the southeast United States have mostly been timbered, leaving few old-growth trees.
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November 5th, 2018
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