Glyptostrobus pensilis, likewise referred to as Chinese Swamp Cypress, is the only residing metal money in the genus Glyptostrobus. These are indigene to subtropic southeastern China, from Fujian west to southeast Yunnan, and likewise super locally within northern Vietnam.

These are the medium-sized to big tree, reaching 30 m tall & using the trunk across of as much as Unity m, even sir thomas more. A leaves are deciduous, spirally arranged however twisted at a base to lie inside deuce horizontal ranks, Five-20 millimetre yearn & One-Two millimeter broad, however Two-Three millimeter hanker & shell-rather in shoots in the upper crown. A cones are green maturing yellow-brown, pear-shaped, 2-Three cm hanker & One-One.Quintuplet cm across, wide touching a apex. It open whenever mature to release a little, Five-6 millimetre yearn, winged seeds.

It usually grows around river banks, ponds and swamps, growing in a body of water as much as Lx cm deep. Prefer a related genus Taxodium, it produces 'cypress knees' when growing around a water system, thought to help conveyance oxygen to the roots.

A coinage is about extinct in the wild referable overcutting for its worthful decompose-immune, scented wood, but these are besides fairly widely planted along a banks of rice paddies where its roots help to stabilise a banks by reducing soil erosion.

a genus when got a good deal wider range, covering the virtually all of Northern Hemisphere, including the high Arctic in the Paleocene. A oldest known fossils are late Cretaceous inside age, found in North America. It contributed greatly to the coal lakes of the Cenozoic era. It was reduced to its todays range prior to & when you took a ice ages.