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Mexican swamp cypress

DEFINITIONS OF: Mexican swamp cypress

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n cypress of river valleys of Mexican highlands

Synonyms:
Montezuma cypress, Taxodium mucronatum
Types:
Ahuehuete, Tule tree
Mexico's most famous tree; a giant specimen of Montezuma cypress more than 2,000 years old with a girth of 165 feet at Santa Maria del Tule
Type of:
cypress
wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
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