Floris van Breugel / First rays of golden sunshine hit Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) covered in a winter blanket of snow and frost, Grant Grove, Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA November

Floris van Breugel / First rays of golden sunshine hit Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) covered in a winter blanket of snow and frost, Grant Grove, Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA November

Ingo Arndt / Dwarf Cypress (Taxodium sp) trees in grassland, Everglades National Park, Florida

Ingo Arndt / Mangrove (Avicennia sp) and Dwarf Cypress (Taxodium sp) trees surrounding water channel, Everglades National Park, Florida

Ingo Arndt / Dwarf Cypress (Taxodium sp) trees in grassland, Everglades National Park, Florida

Ingo Arndt / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in swamp with epiphytes and ferns, Everglades National Park, Florida

Ingo Arndt / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in swamp with epiphytes and ferns, Everglades National Park, Florida

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in wetland, White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in wetland, White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas

Pete Oxford / Bald cypress trees (Taxodium distichum) The Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve, Telfair County, Georgia, USA

Jack Dykinga / Flowering Lobelia (Lobelia cardinalis) beside a pool with submerged Yellow pond lily (Nuphar polysepala) and Cypress (Taxodium sp) in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) grove in freshwater swamp at dawn, Lake Fausse Pointe, Louisiana