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 ...

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 ...

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.