Though they like water, alot, a baldcypress that has spent its entire life in a
container with well drained soil and plenty of oxygen available to its roots
may not enjoy being planed in 12 inches of water. Sometimes we forget that the
plants growing in the middle of the swamp were started as seeds that grew and
adapted to thier environment over a period of many years. Plants in the wild
and plants in cultivation are two very different things that dont always behave
the same way.

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