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 Taxodium mucronatum Tenore

Common Names

Ahuehuete, ciprés, pénjamu, sabino (Spanish) (3), Montezuma cypress, Mexican cypress (2).

Taxonomic notes

Description

Range

SW TX, Mexico.

Big Tree

Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, reportedly has trees over 50 m tall. The Big Tree of Tule in Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, México, has a diameter of 1082 cm and a height of 43 m (2). This tree is often cited as having the largest trunk circumference in the world, but it has for long been thought that it might actually represent the fused trunks of several different individuals. However, recent study of DNA samples from the tree using random amplified polymorphic DNA indicates that it is in fact a single individual (3).

Oldest

The Chapultepec Park trees are thought to be the oldest cultivated trees in the New World (ca. 600 years) (2).

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

Citations

(1) Silba 1986.
(2) Little 1980.
(3) Dorado, Oscar et al. 1996. The arbol del Tule (Taxodium mucronatum Ten.) is a single genetic individual. Madroño 43(4):445-452.

See also:
Elias 1987.
Hall et al. 1990. Genetic uniformity of El Arbol del Tule (The Tule Tree). Madroño 37:1-5.


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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/cu/tax/mucronatum.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 19-Dec-98

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