cypress knees

She had to search for a flat place that wasn't interrupted by cypress knees.

Cypress knees poked through the surface like old dark bones.

An extensive review of the published literature concerning cypress knees.

Fifty more feet and I was shoving the canoe between two cypress knees and into the river.

The main trunks are surrounded by cypress knees.

A couple in their early twenties poled a flat-bottomed boat along the cypress knees.

The cypress knees were like land mines.

I was calf-deep in muddy water, surrounded by cypress knees and towering pines.

The banks were veritable cascades of cypress knees.

Scummy puddles rose about our ankles, and we stumbled over mossgrown cypress knees.

Bald cypress trees growing in swamps have a peculiarity of growth called cypress knees.

Like the related genus Taxodium, it produces 'cypress knees' when growing in water, thought to help transport oxygen to the roots.

The bayou spread, a dream of dark water and cypress knees with the shadowy reflection of trees shimmering on the surface.

At high water there is guided canoeing in the swamp, which offers a different perspective as one paddles through the shallow channel and cypress knees.

The freeway rose the last twenty miles or so, elevated above swamp and cypress knees and hunched men in flat-bottomed boats.

Cypress knees thrust their way out of the water and an occasional frog stirred himself enough to plop from his pad and take a swim.

The trees often develop unique characteristics to allow submergence, including cypress knees and fluted trunks, but can not survive continuous flooding.

Trees stood thick and gnarled, branches tangled together, cypress knees thrust above water and floating logs; but not one of them was alive.

The Guadalupe bass prefer flowing waters of streams within native variety, and use covers like large rocks, cypress knees or stumps for refugee.

The cypress knees, little humps of the roots sticking up, studded the swamp, and some of them even jutted up on the path.

In the darkness, it could easily have blended with the lumpy cypress knees where it lay coiled, until it shifted at the larger predator's approach.

Silent as a snake, its river swam a sinuous line--black water under a fat white moon where the cypress knees broke the surface like bones piercing skin.

We passed the backs of grand houses and boathouses in every conceivable style, and admired a landscape of cypress knees, live oaks, philodendrons and Spanish moss.

Unlike Bald Cypress and Pond Cypress, Montezuma Cypress rarely produces cypress knees from the roots.

A flat-bottom Cajun pirogue could have made it through the shallow channels we saw winding around the hammocks and cypress knees and mangroves, but you'd have to pole it.