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Montezuma bald cypress
Taxodium mucronatum
About
Taxodium mucronatum, commonly known as Montezuma bald cypress, Montezuma cypress, sabino, or ahuehuete, is a tree in the family Cupressaceae. It is primarily native to Mexico and Guatemala, with a few populations in the southwestern United States. Ahuehuete is derived from the Nahuatl name for the tree, āhuēhuētl, which means 'upright drum in water' or 'old man of the water'.
- Family
- Cupressaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Taxodium mucronatum
- Slug
- taxodium-mucronatum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Taxodium
- Species
- mucronatum
- Wikidata QID
- Q1429751
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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