The dawn redwood can grow up to 120 feet and looks like a bald cypress. But look closely. HARRY R. WRITES: What is the difference between the dawn redwood and bald cypress? A neighbor has two ...

Arizona cypress is also evergreen and unrelated to bald cypress but valuable when used in the right place. Dawn redwood is a completely different genus but remarkably similar to bald cypress.

Michigan has dense forests with tall trees that include maples, oak and pines — including one commonly mistaken for a dawn redwood , the bald cypress — but there are characteristics of a ...

The only other tree which it can be confused with is the Asian dawn redwood, or Metasequoia, which is much less common. Closeup, how do you tell them apart? By their fruits, is one way.