The viewers of the `` Deep Peep Show '' at 15th and M Streets NW have an added attraction -- the view of a fossilized cypress swamp.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Between 1800 and 1820, the legendary Colonel Plug also, known as Col. Plug or Colonel Fluger, ran a gang of river pirates on the Ohio River, in a cypress swamp, near the mouth of the Cache River, which was below Cave-In-Rock and Fort Massac and just above the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

It is an important example of southern cypress swamp but it has been greatly altered by logging, drainage and levee construction.

This combination of virgin pine and cypress forest, hardwood forest, meadow and blackwater swamp is managed by the National Park Service.

After the company's bankruptcy, most of the swamp was purchased by the Hebard family of Philadelphia, who conducted extensive cypress logging operations from 1909 to 1927.

A cypress swamp along the side of the Trace near Jackson, Mississippi The Natchez Trace, also known as the " Old Natchez Trace ", is a historical path that extends roughly from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee and Mississippi rivers.

The river contains large areas of bottomland hardwood swamp and cypress swamp, providing habitat for many species of wildlife including sturgeon and black bears.

It contains one of two known fallen Sequoia sempervirens in the UK, Wellingtonia, dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostroboides ), Atlas cedar ( Cedrus atlantica ), western hemlock ( Tsuga heterophylla ), Chinese swamp cypress and yew.

The trees include plane, Indian chestnut, silver maple, and a swamp cypress.

Bald cypress that might be found in a Louisiana swamp grow just a short walk from pines and birches that grow in New England forests ; young redwoods from California grow near cottonwoods that might grow in riverside forests in the otherwise treeless Great Plains States.

Goose Creek Trail is a 1. 9-mile ( 3. 06-km ) trail that passes through a cypress swamp.

The park also contains a large cypress swamp.

It is surrounded by a swamp of red maple and Atlantic white cypress, and by steep granitic monadnocks.

It is commonly found in open sclerophyll forests, including those on coastal dunes or granite outcrops ; forests dominated by spotted gum on mountain ridges and exposed slopes ; box and ironbark forests on the foothills of the Great Dividing Range ; mixed forests of eucalypts and cypress ( Callitris ); forests dominated by yapunya, mulga, gidgee, brigalow or emu bush ; in stands of belah and scattered clumps of boree ; on the edges of woodlands of river red gum including swamp woodlands bordering floodplains, and areas dominated by exotic species such as European ash and willow.

Swampland is a current temporary exhibit features replicated South American swamps of the Pantanal, a Florida mangrove swamp, and a Southeastern U. S. cypress swamp.

A natural sand bar, which extends along the northwest shore between a fringing cypress swamp and the main lake, was supplemented with spoil dredged to form a neighboring canal in 1946 and developed with private residences.

Big Creek delivers tea-colored water from the large cypress and gum tree swamp at the northeast corner of the lake, and the Waccamaw River emerges from the southern shore.

It is bordered by a swamp area that features bald cypress, sweetgum, oak, tupelo and other hardwoods.

Wetlands include small lakes and streams, bogs, pitch pine-blueberry peat swamps, an inland Atlantic white cypress swamp, red maple swamps, acidic seeps, calcareous seeps, and a few emergent marshes.

biflora ), water tupelo ( Nyssa aquatica ), sweetbay ( Magnolia virginiana ), bald cypress ( Taxodium distichum ), swamp laurel oak ( Quercus obtusa ), red maple ( Acer rubrum ), loblolly ( Pinus taeda ), ti ti ( Cyrilla racemiflora ), fetterbush ( Lyonia lucida ), and winterberry ( Ilex verticillata ).

A four hundred acre Bald Cypress swamp is the largest remaining remnant of a cypress strand that once separated the pine flatwoods in the east from the Everglades marshes.

A large stand of cypress trees has grown up in and around Big Hill Pond, which is accessible by four-wheel-drive vehicles.

Roughly 90 % of the trip is along the Big Cypress Bayou, affording views of the slow-moving water and thousands of bald cypress trees.

Big Cypress borders the wet freshwater prairies of Everglades National Park to the south, and other state and federally protected cypress country in the west, with water from the Big Cypress flowing south and west into the coastal Ten Thousand Islands region of Everglades National Park.

For nature lovers who don't mind getting their feet wet, hiking throughout Big Cypress is enjoyable in all seasons, with most of the cypress country more hospitable to hikers than the dense sawgrass prairies of the central Everglades.

As of 2003, the following park trees were on Iowa's statewide " Big Tree " list: Arizona cypress ( Cupressus arizonica ), black hickory ( Carya glabra ), pawpaw ( Asimina triloba ), and black walnut ( Juglans nigra ).

The northern portion of the county is typically gently rolling hills, river flatlands, and some sizeable bald cypress swamps along Cypress Creek and its tributaries.

Cypress is the name applied to many plants in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is a conifer of northern temperate regions.

The word cypress is also used as a descriptor for the angiosperm vine in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, known as the Cypress vine ( Ipomoea quamoclit ).

Cupressus macrocarpa, commonly known as Monterey Cypress or Macrocarpa, is a species of cypress that is endemic to the Central Coast of California.

When planted in areas with hot summers, for example in interior California away from the coastal fog belt, Monterey Cypress has proved highly susceptible to cypress canker, caused by the fungus Seiridium cardinale and rarely survives more than a few years.

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana is a cypress in the genus Chamaecyparis, family Cupressaceae, known by the name Lawson's Cypress in the horticultural trade, or Port Orford-cedar in its native range ( although not a true cedar ).

Nootka Cypress ( Cupressus nootkatensis ( D. Spach )), also Callitropsis nootkatensis, formerly Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Xanthocyparis nootkatensis, is a cypress ( Cupressaceae ) with a chequered taxonomic and nomenclatural history.

The Nootka Cypress is used extensively by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, along with another cypress, Thuja plicata ( Western Red Cedar ).

Chief among the scenic attractions is the Lone Cypress Tree (), a salt-pruned Monterey cypress ( macrocarpa ) tree which is the official symbol of Pebble Beach and a frequent fixture of television broadcasts from this area.

* Some cypress trees, Bald Cypress Taxodium distichum, along the Frio River and including individuals within Garner State Park TX, exceed 22 ft ( 6. 7m ) circumference and about 86ft ( about 26m ) height, and may be over 300 years old.

A pygmy cypress forest dominated by Sargent's Cypress ( Cupressus sargentii ) and Arctostaphylos species can be found on the northwest slopes.

# Cuesta Ridge Botanical Special Interest Area — protects a Dwarf Sargent Cypress ( Cupressus sargentii ) pygmy cypress forest, operated by the Los Padres National Forest.

Chamaecyparis pisifera ( Sawara Cypress or Sawara ) is a species of false cypress, native to central and southern Japan, on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū.

A related cypress found on Taiwan, Chamaecyparis formosensis ( Formosan Cypress ), differs in longer ovoid cones 6 – 10 mm long with 10 – 16 scales.

Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean Cypress ( also known as Italian, Tuscan, or Graveyard Cypress, or Pencil Pine ) is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region, in northeast Libya, southeast Greece ( Crete, Rhodes ), southern Turkey, Cyprus, Northern Egypt, western Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Malta, Italy, western Jordan, and also a disjunct population in Iran.

Callitropsis vietnamensis, commonly known as the Vietnamese Golden Cypress, is a coniferous tree in the cypress family.

Today's pillars are Japanese Hinoki Cypress with massive American cypress as ceiling beams.

Cupressus arizonica, the Arizona Cypress, is a species of cypress native to the southwest of North America, Arizona, southwest New Mexico, southern California, the Chisos Mountains of west Texas, and in Mexico in Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas and northern Baja California.

Unlike Monterey Cypress, it has proved highly resistant to cypress canker, caused by the fungus Seiridium cardinale, and growth is reliable where this disease is prevalent.

The university's first football field was on the main campus adjacent to a small cypress pond, which later became Cypress Lake, also nicknamed The Swamp.

The Forest contains thousands of acres of old growth Pond Cypress swamps ( cypress domes ).