Plant · P-1005

Montezuma Cypress

Taxodium mucronatum

Montezuma cypress is a long-lived conifer with a massively thick, buttressed trunk and delicate, weeping branchlets that give mature trees a graceful, broad-crowned silhouette. It grows naturally along rivers and on seasonally flooded ground, tolerating standing water for months and, once established, long dry spells between floods. Foliage stays green through mild winters and drops only where hard frost forces it. Its national-tree status in Mexico reflects specimens that live for centuries and grow trunks of enormous girth.